Unclassified road crash in Fenland PE13 on 31 July 2017 at 12:09 involving a Dennis lorry
A Dennis lorry and a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fenland at 12:09 on Monday 31 July 2017. The 49-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2017
- Monday, 12:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67314, longitude 0.16166, in the PE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wisbech. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leverington & Wisbech Rural, Fenland, PE13 1RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350208055
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2013.
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 30 November 2013
4 m awayRef 2013353170313
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 17 March 1990
6 m awayRef 1990351085690
Slight
Citroen Gsa crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 10 November 1993
10 m awayRef 1993350545593
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 7 June 2018
35 m awayRef 2018350337427
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 12 October 1989
54 m awayRef 1989351322189
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 31 January 1984
54 m awayRef 1984351030384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017350208055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2017.