Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO15 on 23 August 1998 at 14:20 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 14:20 on Sunday 23 August 1998. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1998
- Sunday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79376, longitude 1.13275, in the CO15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200D0306
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1997.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 16 June 1997
28 m awayRef 19974200D0242
Slight
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 6 May 1998
32 m awayRef 19984200D0147
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 1 March 1985
71 m awayRef 19854200E0186
Slight
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Slight
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86 m awayRef 201242I332810
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 14 October 2018
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 19984200D0306 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1998.