Serious A130 crash in Uttlesford on 24 October 2004 at 14:40 involving a Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle
A Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle crashed on the A130 in Uttlesford at 14:40 on Sunday 24 October 2004. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Oct 2004
- Sunday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki EX500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8475, longitude 0.39451, in the CM6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200A0680
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 130
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2013.
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Land Rover Defender crash on the A130 in Uttlesford, 14 December 2005
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki EX500
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki EX500)
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 20044200A0680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 2004.