Serious B1038 crash in East Hertfordshire on 31 March 2009 at 13:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire at 13:10 on Tuesday 31 March 2009. The 64-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2009
- Tuesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95442, longitude 0.06225, in the SG9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20094100A0219
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1038
- 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
- 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 19 November 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B1038 in North Hertfordshire, 19 November 2002
10 m awayRef 20024100A1179
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 18 November 1995
530 m awayRef 19954100A0510
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 2 April 2003
534 m awayRef 20034100A0320
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 23 December 1993
618 m awayRef 19934100A0601
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 3 July 2023
770 m awayRef 2023411330675
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1038 in East Hertfordshire, 20 September 2024
801 m awayRef 2024411496180
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,284 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 20094100A0219 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 2009.