Serious A1003 crash in Barnet on 10 December 1997 at 07:35 involving an MZ motorcycle
An MZ motorcycle and a Fiat Uno were involved in a crash on the A1003 in Barnet at 07:35 on Wednesday 10 December 1997. The 43-year-old male rider of the MZ motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- MZ and Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60361, longitude -0.19618, in the N3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701SC00984
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1003
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1990.
Slight
Datsun Bluebird crash on the B1462 in Barnet, 26 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199001SG00604
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 21 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701SX20575
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1003 in Barnet, 6 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801SC00018
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1462 in Barnet, 4 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101SG00633
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B1462 in Barnet, 4 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199701SG00278
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B1462 in Barnet, 12 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801SX20693
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MZ
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (MZ)
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 199701SC00984 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1997.