A505 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 12 October 1997 at 17:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire at 17:30 on Sunday 12 October 1997. The 24-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 1997
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09407, longitude 0.12545, in the CB22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heathfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350522097
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 505
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2014.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 22 August 2014
50 m awayRef 2014350150614
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 June 2004
67 m awayRef 2004350280004
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 20 May 2007
78 m awayRef 2007350214307
Serious
Car crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 17 May 1983
100 m awayRef 1983352097783
Slight
Car crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 January 1988
100 m awayRef 1988352005688
Slight
Lorry crash on the A505 in South Cambridgeshire, 10 January 1986
100 m awayRef 1986352005486
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,342 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 1997350522097 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.