Serious B4141 crash in Swindon on 2 October 1998 at 18:35 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4141 in Swindon at 18:35 on Friday 2 October 1998. The 50-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 1998
- Friday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Maestro and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59512, longitude -1.76753, in the SN2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199854DN06098
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4141
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 26 January 1993
100 m awayRef 199354DN00513
Slight
MG ZS crash on the B4141 in Swindon, 10 October 2006
102 m awayRef 200654DE47506
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4141 in Swindon, 19 January 2011
136 m awayRef 201154DN03211
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 17 July 1997
141 m awayRef 199754DN04717
Slight
Lorry crash on the A419 in Swindon, 16 February 1979
141 m awayRef 197954DH00499
Serious
Van crash on the B4141 in Swindon, 19 December 1985
149 m awayRef 198554DN08935
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 50, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 199854DN06098 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 1998.