B1027 crash in Tendring on 16 July 1992 at 18:50 involving a Vespa (Douglas) motor scooter
A Vespa (Douglas) motor scooter and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B1027 in Tendring at 18:50 on Thursday 16 July 1992. The 19-year-old male rider of the Vespa (Douglas) motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 1992
- Thursday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vespa (Douglas) and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85269, longitude 1.00817, in the CO7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19924200E0601
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1027
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 1992.
Slight
Leyland National crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 18 June 1992
At the same spotRef 19924200E0519
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 7 July 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200D0242
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 29 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025421660949
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 29 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200E0079
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 14 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994200D0431
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B1027 in Tendring, 10 December 1992
10 m awayRef 19924200E1107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vespa (Douglas)
Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 19924200E0601 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 1992.