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Serious unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 29 March 1990 at 17:15 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A bicycle and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 17:15 on Thursday 29 March 1990. The 8-year-old male cyclist and the 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Mar 1990
Thursday, 17:15
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and Yamaha
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90546, longitude 0.98451, 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
19904200E0305
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
Using private drive or entrance
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 4 December 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    8 years

  • Vehicle 2: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    249 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 8, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 19904200E0305 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.