A361 crash in Wiltshire on 23 July 2016 at 15:03 involving a Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A361 in Wiltshire at 15:03 on Saturday 23 July 2016. The 47-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle and a 37-year-old female passenger on the Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 15:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 1000 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35231, longitude -1.98812, in the SN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Devizes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devizes North, Wiltshire, SN10 1LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016546665016
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 25 July 2017
1 m awayRef 2017546798517
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 6 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017541171617
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 1 February 2002
6 m awayRef 200254AZ05002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 8 September 1986
6 m awayRef 198654CZ03436
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 19 December 2000
6 m awayRef 200054AZ78100
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 9 August 2009
8 m awayRef 200954EZ29809
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 1000)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 1000)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016546665016 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2016.