Serious unclassified road crash in Central Bedfordshire SG5 on 16 July 2011 at 20:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire at 20:20 on Saturday 16 July 2011. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01385, longitude -0.23012, in the SG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stotfold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stotfold, Central Bedfordshire, SG5 4LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011400DA0022
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 17 December 2011
32 m awayRef 2011400DA0510
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 5 May 1983
50 m awayRef 19834000D0752
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 January 1994
50 m awayRef 19944000E0094
Fatal
Car crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 1 December 1988
50 m awayRef 19884000D2176
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 June 1991
50 m awayRef 19914000D0771
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the A507 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 December 1990
67 m awayRef 19904000D2332
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 2011400DA0022 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 2011.