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Serious A10 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 8 May 1997 at 12:15 involving a Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle

A Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle and a Rover SD1 were involved in a crash on the A10 in South Cambridgeshire at 12:15 on Thursday 8 May 1997. The 22-year-old female rider of the Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle was seriously injured and a 28-year-old male passenger on the Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 May 1997
Thursday, 12:15
Vehicles
2
Suzuki GS 500 and Rover SD1
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27142, longitude 0.17789, in the CB25 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997350226497
Council area
South Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
Highway authority
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
10
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Raining, 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 29 July 2009.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki GS 500

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    22 years
    Engine capacity
    487 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

  • Vehicle 2: Rover SD1

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    74 years
    Engine capacity
    2,204 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    23 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Female, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 500)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 500)

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 1997350226497 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 1997.