Serious C road crash in West Northamptonshire CV23 on 25 July 2008 at 14:00 involving an Aprilia RSV Mille motorcycle
An Aprilia RSV Mille motorcycle crashed on a C road in West Northamptonshire at 14:00 on Friday 25 July 2008. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jul 2008
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia RSV Mille
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3345, longitude -1.18353, in the CV23 postcode district. The location was in the former Daventry district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200834WD34868
- Council area
- West Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 83%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 17%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 2004.
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184 m awayRef 197934DD00357
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 12 March 1995
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Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on a C road in West Northamptonshire, 30 March 2008
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 22 May 1991
262 m awayRef 199134ND00396
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4038 in West Northamptonshire, 6 May 2001
263 m awayRef 200134TD00197
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia RSV Mille
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia RSV Mille)
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 200834WD34868 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2008.