A4311 crash in Swindon on 2 June 2000 at 05:30 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 05:30 on Friday 2 June 2000. The 33-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 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
- 2 Jun 2000
- Friday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX600 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58555, longitude -1.77538, in the SN2 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200054DN28700
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4311
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 12 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198654DN07806
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 10 September 2024
3 m awayRef 202454A720524
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 4 December 2023
10 m awayRef 202354C867023
Serious
Car crash on the A345 in Swindon, 20 November 1982
10 m awayRef 198254DN00992
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 18 June 2014
11 m awayRef 2014545531414
Slight
Bus crash on the A345 in Swindon, 18 June 1983
14 m awayRef 198354DN03073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 200054DN28700 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.