Unclassified road crash in Cambridge CB1 on 31 May 2011 at 19:40 involving a Skyjet SJ 125 motorcycle
A car and a Skyjet SJ 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge at 19:40 on Tuesday 31 May 2011. The 22-year-old male rider of the Skyjet SJ 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2011
- Tuesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Skyjet SJ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19636, longitude 0.16942, in the CB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coleridge, Cambridge, CB1 3TS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011350631911
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1997.
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 30 May 1997
10 m awayRef 1997350265697
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Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 21 June 1990
14 m awayRef 1990352156090
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 25 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993350647393
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 28 June 2009
28 m awayRef 2009350209909
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 29 July 2005
28 m awayRef 2005350365705
Slight
Opel Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 1 February 2010
42 m awayRef 2010350246210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Skyjet SJ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Skyjet SJ 125)
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 2011350631911 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2011.