Fatal B180 crash in East Hertfordshire on 28 July 1993 at 23:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B180 in East Hertfordshire at 23:40 on Wednesday 28 July 1993. The 53-year-old male rider was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 28 Jul 1993
- Wednesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80198, longitude 0.05033, in the SG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934100A0334
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 180
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2013.
Slight
Honda CBR125R crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 24 September 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100A0547
Slight
Car crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 28 September 2012
45 m awayRef 20124100A0620
Slight
Car crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 24 December 2001
121 m awayRef 20014100A1321
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 21 December 1995
134 m awayRef 19954100A0583
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 9 October 1995
134 m awayRef 19954100A0426
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B180 in East Hertfordshire, 27 January 1999
143 m awayRef 19994100A0039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 53, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19934100A0334 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 1993.