Serious A406 crash in Enfield on 17 September 2001 at 08:50 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A Vauxhall Tigra and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A406 in Enfield at 08:50 on Monday 17 September 2001. The 25-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Sep 2001
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Tigra and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61486, longitude -0.06975, in the N18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Edmonton, Enfield, N18 2TL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101YE00537
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2002.
Slight
Honda Pantheon Fes 125 crash on the A406 in Enfield, 12 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200201YE00773
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A406 in Enfield, 15 November 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010145907
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A406 in Enfield, 13 February 2003
14 m awayRef 200301YE00088
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 7 January 2020
17 m awayRef 2020010228992
Serious
Kia Rio crash on the A406 in Enfield, 30 September 2022
17 m awayRef 2022010402026
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Enfield, 1 September 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010595013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 200101YE00537 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 2001.