Serious A6097 crash in Rushcliffe on 4 July 2020 at 16:31 involving a Yamaha Tracer motorcycle
A Yamaha Tracer motorcycle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe at 16:31 on Saturday 4 July 2020. The 67-year-old male rider of the Yamaha Tracer motorcycle was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2020
- Saturday, 16:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha Tracer and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9853, longitude -0.98749, in the NG14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dover Beck, Newark and Sherwood, NG14 7RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202031D078820
- Council area
- Rushcliffe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6097
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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 slight injury crash on 12 November 2013.
Slight
Mini One crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe, 12 November 2013
3 m awayRef 201331D263813
Slight
Car crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe, 1 October 1988
16 m awayRef 1988317Y20821
Slight
Car crash on the A6097 in Newark and Sherwood, 21 July 1982
16 m awayRef 1982314211506
Serious
Honda crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe, 21 April 2011
18 m awayRef 201131D074511
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe, 18 July 2020
21 m awayRef 202031D081620
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A6097 in Rushcliffe, 15 December 2017
21 m awayRef 201731D251517
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Tracer
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 847 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 67, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Tracer)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 202031D078820 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushcliffe road accident statistics for 2020.