Serious A6141 crash in North Hertfordshire on 3 May 1999 at 17:31 involving a Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle crashed on the A6141 in North Hertfordshire at 17:31 on Monday 3 May 1999. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 May 1999
- Monday, 17:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96361, longitude -0.196, in the SG6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994100G0141
- Council area
- North Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6141
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX750
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX750)
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 19994100G0141 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 1999.