Serious unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 1 April 2016 at 16:35 involving a Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle
A Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Swindon at 16:35 on Friday 1 April 2016. The 25-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 2016
- Friday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600 Hornet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57623, longitude -1.80833, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon, SN2 2LA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016542853716
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 November 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 November 1980
3 m awayRef 198054DD12440
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 15 March 1991
20 m awayRef 199154DN01641
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 2 June 2011
29 m awayRef 2011544710511
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 9 June 1979
29 m awayRef 197954DD06899
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 10 November 2025
33 m awayRef 2025541667230
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX400 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 31 December 2002
54 m awayRef 200254DW79002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600 Hornet
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600 Hornet)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016542853716 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 2016.