Serious A113 crash in Epping Forest on 15 February 2012 at 21:48 involving a Piaggio PX200 E motorcycle
A Piaggio PX200 E motorcycle crashed on the A113 in Epping Forest at 21:48 on Wednesday 15 February 2012. The 62-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 21:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio PX200 E
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69018, longitude 0.23658, in the CM5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I040402
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 113
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2000.
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 1 November 2000
36 m awayRef 20004200G1016
Slight
Car crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 12 April 2001
36 m awayRef 20014200G0354
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 12 April 2015
45 m awayRef 201542I101604
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 16 December 2018
47 m awayRef 2018420351016
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 22 March 2019
64 m awayRef 2019420825640
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A113 in Epping Forest, 25 June 2003
86 m awayRef 20034200G0527
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio PX200 E
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio PX200 E)
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 201242I040402 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2012.