Unclassified road crash in East Hertfordshire CM21 on 27 September 2000 at 23:35 involving a Honda CB500 motorcycle
A Honda CB500 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire at 23:35 on Wednesday 27 September 2000. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81201, longitude 0.15106, in the CM21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sawbridgeworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004100A0795
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB500
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB500)
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 20004100A0795 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2000.