Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF31 on 25 November 1997 at 19:51 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 19:51 on Tuesday 25 November 1997. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 19:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51636, longitude -3.56016, in the CF31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgend.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199762F044197
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1990.
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Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 11 December 1990
73 m awayRef 1990620F04650
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Citroen Synergie crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 7 March 2012
139 m awayRef 2012620215140
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Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 6 February 1986
146 m awayRef 1986620F01450
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Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 14 December 2001
149 m awayRef 2001620052603
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 August 1981
199 m awayRef 1981620F02530
Slight
Fiat crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 5 February 1990
216 m awayRef 1990620F00460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199762F044197 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1997.