Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN25 on 20 October 2009 at 17:45 involving a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 17:45 on Tuesday 20 October 2009. The 46-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2009
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZR750 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60835, longitude -1.80069, in the SN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broad Blunsdon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200954DN37409
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1995.
Slight
Rover 2000 crash on the B4534 in Swindon, 19 November 1995
30 m awayRef 199554DH07015
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 22 July 1988
30 m awayRef 198854DH00828
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 9 August 2004
58 m awayRef 200454DN41504
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 1 October 1991
70 m awayRef 199154DH06341
Slight
Car crash on the B4534 in Swindon, 14 October 1986
70 m awayRef 198654DH03056
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Swindon, 25 November 1990
70 m awayRef 199054DH01240
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZR750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZR750)
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 200954DN37409 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 2009.