C road crash in North Warwickshire B78 on 31 May 2000 at 19:20 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX, a Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in North Warwickshire at 19:20 on Wednesday 31 May 2000. The 33-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2000
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen AX and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61872, longitude -1.61548, in the B78 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polesworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000230000950
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2016.
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Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 28 November 2016
2 m awayRef 2016230137723
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 6 July 2001
10 m awayRef 2001230196609
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Mercedes 300 crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 18 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002230297679
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Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 15 June 2021
15 m awayRef 2021231057028
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Rover Metro crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 1 July 2005
20 m awayRef 2005230596167
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Citroen C1 crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 28 September 2018
26 m awayRef 2018230339493
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX1100
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,052 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX1100)
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 2000230000950 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 2000.