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Serious A439 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 4 May 1997 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A439 in Stratford-on-Avon at 13:30 on Sunday 4 May 1997. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 May 1997
Sunday, 13:30
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20631, longitude -1.68534, in the CV37 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stratford-on-Avon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997239700730
Council area
Stratford-on-Avon
Police force
Warwickshire
Highway authority
Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
439
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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, no street lighting
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 1 May 1991.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

  • Vehicle 2: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    43 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 26, 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 1997239700730 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1997.