Serious B4112 crash in Rugby on 19 January 1997 at 00:10 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the B4112 in Rugby at 00:10 on Sunday 19 January 1997. The 36-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 36-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jan 1997
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38991, longitude -1.27965, in the CV21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997239700096
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4112
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2012.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B4112 in Rugby, 15 April 2012
11 m awayRef 2012233541312
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B4112 in Rugby, 21 May 1997
20 m awayRef 1997239700843
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rugby, 1 June 2008
22 m awayRef 2008230895928
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B4112 in Rugby, 8 September 1990
28 m awayRef 1990239001754
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4112 in Rugby, 7 May 1990
28 m awayRef 1990239000925
Serious
Van crash on the B4112 in Rugby, 10 January 1983
28 m awayRef 1983238300066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1997239700096 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1997.