A61 crash in North East Derbyshire on 18 November 1997 at 12:30 involving a Kawasaki AR125 motorcycle
A Kawasaki AR125 motorcycle crashed on the A61 in North East Derbyshire at 12:30 on Tuesday 18 November 1997. The 28-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki AR125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18248, longitude -1.41937, in the S42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Old Tupton.
Map of where the crash happened in North East Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997307C00813
- Council area
- North East Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 28 May 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309C01434
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 16 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988308C00159
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 17 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996306C00308
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 30 July 1998
At the same spotRef 1998308C00510
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 13 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994304C00371
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North East Derbyshire, 22 September 1979
At the same spotRef 1979309C01995
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki AR125
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki AR125)
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 1997307C00813 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North East Derbyshire road accident statistics for 1997.