B1023 crash in Colchester on 31 May 1984 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B1023 in Colchester at 17:50 on Thursday 31 May 1984. The 16-year-old male rider of the 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 May 1984
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81593, longitude 0.74641, in the CO5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tiptree.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19844200E0437
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1023
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 4 June 1988
At the same spotRef 19884200E0557
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 7 December 1992
41 m awayRef 19924200E1078
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 11 February 2005
41 m awayRef 200542E006102
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 23 October 1995
45 m awayRef 19954200E0476
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 5 September 1999
50 m awayRef 19994200E0393
Slight
Lexmoto Echo crash on the B1023 in Colchester, 15 September 2022
61 m awayRef 2022421219836
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19844200E0437 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1984.