Unclassified road crash in Rugby CV22 on 28 November 1997 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Piaggio Zip motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rugby at 18:00 on Friday 28 November 1997. The 33-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Zip motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1997
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36232, longitude -1.26717, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997239702182
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 33, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Zip)
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 1997239702182 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.