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Serious A361 crash in Swindon on 28 December 2000 at 05:00 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle

A Piaggio NRG motorcycle crashed on the A361 in Swindon at 05:00 on Thursday 28 December 2000. The 33-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 Dec 2000
Thursday, 05:00
Vehicles
1
Piaggio NRG
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59861, longitude -1.74153, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret.

Map of where the crash happened in Swindon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200054DH73600
Council area
Swindon
Police force
Wiltshire
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
361
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
4141

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Piaggio NRG

    Motorcycle 50cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Engine capacity
    49 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 33, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio NRG)

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 200054DH73600 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 2000.