B353 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 2 September 1997 at 16:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames at 16:40 on Tuesday 2 September 1997. The male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 1997
- Tuesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47153, longitude -0.28735, in the TW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701TW00506
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 353
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 31 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TW00503
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Honda PA50VL crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 2 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TW00481
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 March 2005
20 m awayRef 200501TW60050
Slight
Car crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198801TR00316
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Audi A4 crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 13 July 2024
30 m awayRef 2024010521521
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 March 1983
61 m awayRef 1983010TR0090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199701TW00506 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 1997.