Serious M25 crash in Havering on 24 November 2008 at 13:58 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the M25 in Havering at 13:58 on Monday 24 November 2008. The 23-year-old female rider of the Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 2008
- Monday, 13:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 600 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5728, longitude 0.28435, in the RM14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herongate, Ingrave & West Horndon, Brentwood, CM13 3JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801KD76081
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 2004.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M25 in Havering, 5 April 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TC00302
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the M25 in Havering, 27 October 2003
14 m awayRef 200301TC00670
Slight
Audi 90 crash on the A127 in Havering, 3 May 1992
14 m awayRef 199201KD00350
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A127 in Havering, 29 November 2003
14 m awayRef 200301KD00794
Slight
Car crash on the A127 in Havering, 1 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983010KD1159
Slight
Car crash on the A127 in Havering, 21 April 1988
22 m awayRef 198801KD00449
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 200801KD76081 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2008.