Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 25 February 1997 at 16:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 16:40 on Tuesday 25 February 1997. The 41-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 1997
- Tuesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6993, longitude 0.61979, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200C0122
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 2004.
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Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 25 August 1993
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle combination
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 41, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19974200C0122 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 1997.