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A5 crash in Barnet on 26 September 1996 at 16:30 involving a BMW motorcycle

A BMW motorcycle and a Land Rover Range Rover were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 16:30 on Thursday 26 September 1996. The 61-year-old male rider of the BMW motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Sep 1996
Thursday, 16:30
Vehicles
2
BMW and Land Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6118, longitude -0.28063, in the HA8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnet

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199601QA00649
Council area
Barnet
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Daylight
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 24 November 1994.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    61 years
    Engine capacity
    998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

  • Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    45 years
    Engine capacity
    4,275 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 61, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (BMW)

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 199601QA00649 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1996.