Serious B3399 crash on the Isle of Wight on 15 January 2016 at 07:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3399 on the Isle of Wight at 07:30 on Friday 15 January 2016. The 53-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2016
- Friday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66873, longitude -1.44135, in the PO41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Wight
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016440021295
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3399
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 June 2025.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3399 on the Isle of Wight, 11 June 2025
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Honda CBR900RR crash on the B3399 on the Isle of Wight, 19 January 2003
136 m awayRef 2003440ZD0064
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Volvo XC90 crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 1 May 2022
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Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 1 August 2024
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Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the B339 on the Isle of Wight, 19 June 1993
154 m awayRef 1993440ZH0039
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3399 on the Isle of Wight, 1 May 1992
193 m awayRef 1992440ZH0024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,215 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016440021295 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2016.