A414 crash in East Hertfordshire on 5 October 1990 at 16:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A414 in East Hertfordshire at 16:00 on Friday 5 October 1990. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1990
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79556, longitude -0.08585, in the SG14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hertford.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19904141A0408
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 27 April 1989
At the same spotRef 19894141A1079
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 26 November 1988
At the same spotRef 19884141A1191
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 6 June 1988
At the same spotRef 19884141A1099
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 16 May 2013
41 m awayRef 20134100A0240
Serious
Yamaha NXC 125 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 23 March 2020
50 m awayRef 2020410945931
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 16 July 1997
51 m awayRef 19974100A0327
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 97 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 19904141A0408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 1990.