B1028 crash in Colchester on 7 April 2012 at 11:39 involving a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1028 in Colchester at 11:39 on Saturday 7 April 2012. The 17-year-old male rider of the Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2012
- Saturday, 11:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha WR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86926, longitude 0.96312, in the CO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wivenhoe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I093904
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1028
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 February 2002.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1028 in Colchester, 18 February 2002
At the same spotRef 20024200E0081
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the B1028 in Tendring, 31 December 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200E1109
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1028 in Tendring, 27 May 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200D0213
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1028 in Tendring, 11 March 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200D0114
Serious
Volvo XC70 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 13 August 2017
7 m awayRef 2017420210124
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 30 October 2014
9 m awayRef 201442I360710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 92 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha WR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha WR 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 201242I093904 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 2012.