Serious M11 crash in Epping Forest on 17 February 1995 at 19:40 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the M11 in Epping Forest at 19:40 on Friday 17 February 1995. A 37-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 1995
- Friday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73921, longitude 0.13642, in the CM17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954200G0136
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 11
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1994.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 12 February 1994
20 m awayRef 19944200G0119
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 6 December 1998
20 m awayRef 19984200G0950
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 18 December 1995
22 m awayRef 19954200G0996
Slight
MAN crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 23 May 2017
24 m awayRef 2017420203675
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 14 January 1992
28 m awayRef 19924200G0035
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 25 May 1996
36 m awayRef 19964200G0404
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 736 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 19954200G0136 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1995.