Serious unclassified road crash in Tandridge RH19 on 27 May 1999 at 23:23 involving a Yamaha XJ 900 S motorcycle
A Yamaha XJ 900 S motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Tandridge at 23:23 on Thursday 27 May 1999. The 50-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 1999
- Thursday, 23:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XJ 900 S
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15163, longitude -0.04839, in the RH19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199945EC00147
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2015.
Slight
Toyota Supra crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 12 May 2015
12 m awayRef 2015450024361
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 16 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200045EC00400
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 31 March 1986
22 m awayRef 198645EC00074
Serious
Minibus crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 7 February 1988
22 m awayRef 198845EC00040
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 2 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199645EC00176
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 24 May 1980
22 m awayRef 198045BC00130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XJ 900 S
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 892 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJ 900 S)
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 199945EC00147 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 1999.