A602 crash in Stevenage on 18 March 2010 at 18:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A602 in Stevenage at 18:00 on Thursday 18 March 2010. The 36-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2010
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89015, longitude -0.19676, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roebuck, Stevenage, SG1 2GX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stevenage
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20104100E0110
- 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
- 602
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 2013.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 25 July 2013
10 m awayRef 20134100E0329
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 6 July 1981
32 m awayRef 19814141E1176
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 13 January 2002
50 m awayRef 20024100E0029
Slight
Honda SH50K crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 11 September 1992
51 m awayRef 19924100E1158
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 6 September 2017
52 m awayRef 2017410223258
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A602 in Stevenage, 27 January 2001
54 m awayRef 20014100E0022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 20104100E0110 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 2010.