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Fatal A131 crash in Braintree on 28 August 1995 at 21:13 involving a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle crashed on the A131 in Braintree at 21:13 on Monday 28 August 1995. The 30-year-old male rider was killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Fatal
Date
28 Aug 1995
Monday, 21:13
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ZR750
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85029, longitude 0.52545, in the CM77 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19954200A0552
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
131
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZR750

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years
    Engine capacity
    738 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Fatal

    Male, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZR750)

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 19954200A0552 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1995.