Serious A1155 crash in Stevenage on 2 October 2008 at 19:43 involving a Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle
A Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A1155 in Stevenage at 19:43 on Thursday 2 October 2008. The 16-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle was seriously injured and the 19-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 2008
- Thursday, 19:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91415, longitude -0.17821, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chells, Stevenage, SG2 0EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stevenage
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100E0537
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1155
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 4 May 2004
At the same spotRef 20044100E0237
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 8 November 2019
2 m awayRef 2019410902160
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 28 April 2021
8 m awayRef 2021411047193
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 6 October 1997
10 m awayRef 19974100E0218
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 25 September 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100E0469
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A1155 in Stevenage, 26 May 2010
10 m awayRef 20104100E0263
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- 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
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20084100E0537 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2008.