Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH11 on 22 August 2000 at 20:14 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Crawley at 20:14 on Tuesday 22 August 2000. A 16-year-old male passenger and the 16-year-old male rider were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2000
- Tuesday, 20:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09951, longitude -0.20185, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047N126256
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1997.
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 23 February 1997
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
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 200047N126256 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2000.