A406 crash in Waltham Forest on 23 April 2005 at 00:01 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A406 in Waltham Forest at 00:01 on Saturday 23 April 2005. The 43-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2005
- Saturday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60084, longitude -0.01677, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Valley, Waltham Forest, E4 8SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501JC30259
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 18 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200901JC30040
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 11 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401JC00406
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 1 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901JC30621
Slight
Car crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 18 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010JC0721
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 18 August 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010461227
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A406 in Waltham Forest, 2 August 2015
10 m awayRef 201501JC30485
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 200501JC30259 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2005.