A342 crash in Test Valley on 1 December 2011 at 07:45 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the A342 in Test Valley at 07:45 on Thursday 1 December 2011. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21609, longitude -1.53522, in the SP11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charlton & the Pentons, Test Valley, SP11 0PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011440506829
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 342
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1996.
Slight
MAN crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 29 October 1996
22 m awayRef 1996440NA0739
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 4 October 1987
41 m awayRef 1987440NT0110
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A302 in Test Valley, 10 July 1996
42 m awayRef 1996440NA0453
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in Test Valley, 7 June 1986
72 m awayRef 1986440NA0132
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 28 August 1987
76 m awayRef 1987440NT0099
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A342 in Test Valley, 21 October 1994
95 m awayRef 1994440NT0081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2011440506829 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2011.