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Serious A320 crash in Runnymede on 16 April 1995 at 00:42 involving a Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle crashed on the A320 in Runnymede at 00:42 on Sunday 16 April 1995. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Apr 1995
Sunday, 00:42
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ZX750
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38082, longitude -0.52037, in the KT16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Runnymede

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199545NA00171
Council area
Runnymede
Police force
Surrey
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
320
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 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
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX750

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    748 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX750)

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 199545NA00171 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1995.