B1197 crash in East Hertfordshire on 9 June 2007 at 16:40 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire at 16:40 on Saturday 9 June 2007. The 19-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2007
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78096, longitude -0.04324, in the SG13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20074100A0420
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1197
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2017.
Slight
Alfa Romeo GT crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire, 14 January 2017
17 m awayRef 2017410148497
Serious
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A1197 in East Hertfordshire, 21 December 1999
22 m awayRef 19994100A0565
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire, 14 May 2003
36 m awayRef 20034100A0480
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire, 23 February 1995
36 m awayRef 19954100A0069
Serious
Car crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire, 13 August 1984
63 m awayRef 19844141A1123
Serious
Car crash on the B1197 in East Hertfordshire, 4 February 1983
63 m awayRef 19834141A1018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 20074100A0420 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2007.