Unclassified road crash on the Isle of Wight PO33 on 24 December 2017 at 17:17 involving a Yamaha MT125 motorcycle
A Yamaha MT125 motorcycle and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight at 17:17 on Sunday 24 December 2017. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha MT125 and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71099, longitude -1.16532, in the PO33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haylands & Swanmore, Isle of Wight, PO33 2XF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017440497902
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017440497902 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 2017.