Serious A272 crash in Winchester on 3 January 2007 at 16:47 involving a Yamaha TW 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha TW 125 motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Winchester at 16:47 on Wednesday 3 January 2007. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 16:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha TW 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13587, longitude -1.37723, in the SO21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007440003876
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 94%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 6%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3420 in Test Valley, 7 April 1993
10 m awayRef 1993440NG0037
Serious
BMW F 650 GS crash on the A272 in Winchester, 17 February 2009
14 m awayRef 2009440070968
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A272 in Winchester, 1 September 2014
17 m awayRef 2014440316276
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A272 in Winchester, 4 October 2000
117 m awayRef 2000440OL1448
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B3420 in Winchester, 17 September 1992
172 m awayRef 1992440OC0661
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Winchester, 30 December 2004
180 m awayRef 2004440OC1887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha TW 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha TW 125)
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 2007440003876 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2007.