Serious B4111 crash in North Warwickshire on 30 October 1997 at 10:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Vauxhall Frontera were involved in a crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire at 10:00 on Thursday 30 October 1997. The male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Oct 1997
- Thursday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56764, longitude -1.52814, in the CV9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997239701956
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4111
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 10 December 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire, 10 December 1996
At the same spotRef 1996239602240
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire, 28 November 2014
4 m awayRef 201423N026738
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire, 17 January 2005
20 m awayRef 2005230595071
Fatal
Peugeot 307 crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire, 5 July 2018
42 m awayRef 2018230308197
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 22 August 1984
54 m awayRef 1984238401154
Slight
Car crash on the B4111 in North Warwickshire, 9 December 1979
54 m awayRef 1979230002139
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,260 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 1997239701956 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 1997.