C road crash in Ashford TN30 on 22 April 2001 at 23:30 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle crashed on a C road in Ashford at 23:30 on Sunday 22 April 2001. The 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2001
- Sunday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01023, longitude 0.77526, in the TN30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146WL39416
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2009.
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Submerged in water
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 200146WL39416 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 2001.