A1081 crash in St Albans on 6 December 1994 at 13:00 involving a Kawasaki AR50 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki AR50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1081 in St Albans at 13:00 on Tuesday 6 December 1994. The 16-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki AR50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 1994
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki AR50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82388, longitude -0.36587, in the AL5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harpenden.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944100B1448
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1081
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 11 September 2010
At the same spotRef 20104100F0666
Slight
Leyland crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 22 April 1995
10 m awayRef 19954100F0163
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 17 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944100B1016
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 9 December 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100F5313
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 22 June 1992
14 m awayRef 19924141B1187
Serious
BMW X2 crash on the A1081 in St Albans, 6 March 2025
17 m awayRef 2025411570949
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki AR50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 48 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki AR50)
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 19944100B1448 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 1994.