Serious A1198 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 25 September 2006 at 09:08 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire at 09:08 on Monday 25 September 2006. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Sep 2006
- Monday, 09:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06727, longitude -0.03235, in the SG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006350426206
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1198
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2014.
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 October 2014
10 m awayRef 2014350182214
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 11 June 1993
14 m awayRef 1993350271193
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 28 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025351699043
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 14 June 2017
16 m awayRef 2017350193116
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 23 July 2009
20 m awayRef 2009350239209
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A1198 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 March 2007
22 m awayRef 2007350133207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2006350426206 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2006.