Serious A121 crash in Broxbourne on 24 December 1985 at 12:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A121 in Broxbourne at 12:40 on Tuesday 24 December 1985. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70173, longitude -0.03439, in the EN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheshunt.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501YF00907
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Dual 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 1 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198401YF00082
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 10 September 2017
11 m awayRef 2017410224031
Slight
Honda NS125F crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 12 July 1991
14 m awayRef 199101YF00432
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A121 in Broxbourne, 28 July 1994
14 m awayRef 199401YC00141
Slight
Bus crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 30 June 2003
14 m awayRef 20034100K0402
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B176 in Broxbourne, 24 July 2025
18 m awayRef 2025411621018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, 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 198501YF00907 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1985.