A421 crash in Milton Keynes on 29 September 1997 at 13:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A421 in Milton Keynes at 13:30 on Monday 29 September 1997. The 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1997
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98668, longitude -0.80354, in the MK4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199743S081097
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 421
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 421
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2024.
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Motorcycle crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 29 June 2024
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Rover Metro crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 22 January 2001
14 m awayRef 200143S096011
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 19 March 2013
25 m awayRef 201343S100033
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Motorcycle crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 11 October 1997
32 m awayRef 199743S050107
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Peugeot 206 crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 14 October 2014
39 m awayRef 201443S070104
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HGV crash on the A421 in Milton Keynes, 6 March 2000
50 m awayRef 200043S024030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 747 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 199743S081097 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 1997.