A4361 crash in Swindon on 5 March 2007 at 07:30 involving a Piaggio PX125 motorcycle
A Piaggio PX125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4361 in Swindon at 07:30 on Monday 5 March 2007. The 31-year-old male rider of the Piaggio PX125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2007
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio PX125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54869, longitude -1.77758, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town & Lawn, Swindon, SN3 1RU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200754DC11007
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1999.
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 14 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199954DS28699
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 23 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201054DE05810
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A361 in Swindon, 13 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198154DD12401
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 18 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199954DS57699
Slight
Car crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 13 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198554DS10665
Serious
Car crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 17 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198654DS01806
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio PX125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio PX125)
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 200754DC11007 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 2007.