Serious A414 crash in Chelmsford on 7 October 1994 at 08:20 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A414 in Chelmsford at 08:20 on Friday 7 October 1994. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Oct 1994
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72165, longitude 0.45963, in the CM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chelmsford.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944200C0774
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1007
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1114 in Chelmsford, 6 October 2013
9 m awayRef 201342I304910
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 7 April 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200C0341
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 1 January 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200C0097
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 30 May 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200C0313
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 13 September 1999
14 m awayRef 19994200C0614
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1114 in Chelmsford, 2 December 2004
14 m awayRef 20044200C0830
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 19944200C0774 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 1994.