Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 4 November 1985 at 09:40 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on an unclassified road in Tendring at 09:40 on Monday 4 November 1985. The 16-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1985
- Monday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85305, longitude 0.99411, in the CO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alresford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19854200E1031
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2004.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 19854200E1031 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1985.