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Serious B1029 crash in Tendring on 27 March 1990 at 17:25 involving a Vespa (Douglas) motor scooter

A Vespa (Douglas) motor scooter crashed on the B1029 in Tendring at 17:25 on Tuesday 27 March 1990. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Mar 1990
Tuesday, 17:25
Vehicles
1
Vespa (Douglas)
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93617, longitude 0.97927, in the CO7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Tendring

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19904200E0300
Council area
Tendring
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1029
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Vespa (Douglas)

    Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    16 years
    Engine capacity
    123 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Vespa (Douglas))

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 19904200E0300 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 1990.