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Serious M4 crash in Hounslow on 21 September 1998 at 15:00 involving a Ducati motorcycle

A Ducati motorcycle crashed on the M4 in Hounslow at 15:00 on Monday 21 September 1998. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Sep 1998
Monday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Ducati
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49284, longitude -0.28741, in the TW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801TD00940
Council area
Hounslow
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
4
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ducati

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Central crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    916 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 38, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Ducati)

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 199801TD00940 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 1998.