Serious B661 crash in Huntingdonshire on 1 April 2012 at 16:20 involving a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle crashed on the B661 in Huntingdonshire at 16:20 on Sunday 1 April 2012. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 24-year-old male passenger was slightly 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
- 1 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha FZ6
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28967, longitude -0.2819, in the PE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Huntingdonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012350148012
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 661
- 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, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 2020.
Serious
Yamaha MT07 crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 8 September 2020
17 m awayRef 2020350978993
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 20 July 1996
82 m awayRef 1996350342396
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 7 July 1999
86 m awayRef 1999350294099
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 15 October 1998
94 m awayRef 1998350500198
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 16 January 2010
117 m awayRef 2010350119110
Serious
Car crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 5 April 1987
144 m awayRef 1987351094787
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZ6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZ6)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZ6)
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 2012350148012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 2012.