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Serious A10 crash in Broxbourne on 21 December 1997 at 22:45 involving a Kawasaki ZR550 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZR550 motorcycle crashed on the A10 in Broxbourne at 22:45 on Sunday 21 December 1997. The male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Dec 1997
Sunday, 22:45
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ZR550
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69113, longitude -0.04599, in the EN8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Broxbourne

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701YF00902
Council area
Broxbourne
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
10
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
198

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, 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 May 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZR550

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    553 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZR550)

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 199701YF00902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1997.