A217 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 21 June 1997 at 15:10 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A217 in Reigate and Banstead at 15:10 on Saturday 21 June 1997. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1997
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25663, longitude -0.19288, in the RH2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745ER00182
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 August 2018.
Serious
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the A217 in Reigate and Banstead, 3 August 2018
5 m awayRef 2018450315815
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 30 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025451676260
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 1 June 2023
7 m awayRef 2023451313979
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 23 August 2022
8 m awayRef 2022451211905
Slight
Car crash on the A217 in Reigate and Banstead, 4 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198245BD00329
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A217 in Reigate and Banstead, 12 February 2005
10 m awayRef 200545MO64468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199745ER00182 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 1997.