A133 crash in Tendring on 21 July 2005 at 22:13 involving a Mercedes van
A motorcycle, a Mercedes van and a car were involved in a crash on the A133 in Tendring at 22:13 on Thursday 21 July 2005. The 60-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2005
- Thursday, 22:13
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85147, longitude 1.10166, in the CO16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542D023307
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 133
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2021.
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A133 in Tendring, 5 November 2021
38 m awayRef 2021421106306
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the A133 in Tendring, 2 May 1997
54 m awayRef 19974200D0174
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A133 in Tendring, 5 December 2011
54 m awayRef 201142I396312
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A133 in Tendring, 26 February 2021
60 m awayRef 2021421024297
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A133 in Tendring, 18 August 1996
63 m awayRef 19964200D0300
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A133 in Tendring, 31 August 1998
102 m awayRef 19984200D0309
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 60, 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 200542D023307 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2005.