Serious A4091 crash in North Warwickshire on 27 August 1996 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4091 in North Warwickshire at 18:00 on Tuesday 27 August 1996. The 28-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Aug 1996
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Kawasaki ZX400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55092, longitude -1.73007, in the B76 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996239601469
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4091
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 446
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 8 February 1986
20 m awayRef 1986238600193
Slight
Car crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 3 September 1989
20 m awayRef 1989238901638
Serious
Car crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 24 September 1988
20 m awayRef 1988238801520
Serious
Lorry crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 20 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983238301938
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 15 June 1991
20 m awayRef 1991239100955
Slight
Volvo crash on the A446 in North Warwickshire, 1 October 1997
36 m awayRef 1997239701724
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX400
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX400)
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 1996239601469 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 1996.