Serious unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM2 on 13 March 2001 at 09:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 09:40 on Tuesday 13 March 2001. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Mar 2001
- Tuesday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73154, longitude 0.50409, in the CM2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20014200C0169
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Other 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 1 January 1995
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Slight
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82 m awayRef 1981420031050
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 27 January 1994
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Serious
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Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 21 December 1992
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 20014200C0169 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2001.