Serious unclassified road crash in Colchester CO2 on 19 December 2011 at 17:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Colchester at 17:15 on Monday 19 December 2011. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2011
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86788, longitude 0.92816, in the CO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I422612
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
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
- 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
- Raining, 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 1998.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 3 August 1998
14 m awayRef 19984200E0347
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 14 March 1994
14 m awayRef 19944200E0215
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 31 August 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200E0402
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 9 July 2000
14 m awayRef 20004200E0348
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 4 May 1991
22 m awayRef 19914200E0368
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 18 July 1988
32 m awayRef 19884200E0703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 201142I422612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2011.