A24 crash in Mole Valley on 21 July 1997 at 14:00 involving a Moto Guzzi motorcycle
A Moto Guzzi motorcycle crashed on the A24 in Mole Valley at 14:00 on Monday 21 July 1997. The 35-year-old male rider 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
- 21 Jul 1997
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Moto Guzzi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12767, longitude -0.32582, in the RH5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745ED00202
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 10 October 1983
22 m awayRef 198345GK00168
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 12 August 2003
32 m awayRef 200345RE41215
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 30 December 2012
60 m awayRef 2012450002106
Slight
Ford crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 19 April 1991
61 m awayRef 199145ED00121
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 26 February 1995
61 m awayRef 199545ED00054
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 10 September 1999
71 m awayRef 199945ED00280
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Moto Guzzi
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Moto Guzzi)
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 199745ED00202 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 1997.