Serious unclassified road crash in Uttlesford CB10 on 26 May 2005 at 18:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Uttlesford at 18:25 on Thursday 26 May 2005. The 23-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
- 26 May 2005
- Thursday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03018, longitude 0.27479, in the CB10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A027005
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 24 January 2003
22 m awayRef 20034200A0059
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 8 December 1981
51 m awayRef 1981420070856
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 3 April 2000
71 m awayRef 20004200A0208
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 20 December 2005
103 m awayRef 200542A072212
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 20 October 1996
241 m awayRef 19964200A0678
Slight
Colt Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Uttlesford, 5 August 1995
314 m awayRef 19954200A0508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 200542A027005 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 2005.