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Serious A1072 crash in Stevenage on 12 April 1998 at 14:10 involving a Suzuki motorcycle

A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A1072 in Stevenage at 14:10 on Sunday 12 April 1998. The 25-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Apr 1998
Sunday, 14:10
Vehicles
1
Suzuki
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92017, longitude -0.19282, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19984100E0069
Council area
Stevenage
Police force
Hertfordshire
Highway authority
Hertfordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1072
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    748 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)

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 19984100E0069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 1998.