Serious C road crash in St Albans AL3 on 16 November 2006 at 21:20 involving a Peugeot Vivacity motorcycle
A car and a Peugeot Vivacity motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in St Albans at 21:20 on Thursday 16 November 2006. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Vivacity motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 2006
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot Vivacity
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79889, longitude -0.39562, in the AL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbourn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Redbourn, St Albans, AL3 7LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20064100F5036
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2015.
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on a C road in St Albans, 3 June 2015
8 m awayRef 20154100F0436
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in St Albans, 17 June 1999
28 m awayRef 19994100F0245
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in St Albans, 20 August 1994
41 m awayRef 19944100B1264
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on a C road in St Albans, 26 June 1991
50 m awayRef 19914141B0448
Serious
Car crash on the A5183 in St Albans, 10 September 1982
50 m awayRef 19824141F2099
Slight
Car crash on the A5183 in St Albans, 11 April 1979
50 m awayRef 19794141F2042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Vivacity
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Vivacity)
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 20064100F5036 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 2006.