Serious unclassified road crash in Thurrock RM16 on 30 July 1997 at 18:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A car and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thurrock at 18:45 on Wednesday 30 July 1997. The 51-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49783, longitude 0.30377, in the RM16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chafford Hundred, West Thurrock and Purfleet-on-Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200F0373
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 19974200F0373 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 1997.