Unclassified road crash in Colchester CO2 on 24 September 2013 at 11:17 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Colchester at 11:17 on Tuesday 24 September 2013. The 19-year-old male rider 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
- 24 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 11:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87238, longitude 0.91462, in the CO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Heath and The Hythe, Colchester, CO2 8AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I289909
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 29 May 2007
4 m awayRef 200742I206805
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 23 June 2006
4 m awayRef 200642E022006
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 27 November 2011
13 m awayRef 201142I389211
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 21 July 2005
15 m awayRef 200542E030507
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 8 February 1990
50 m awayRef 19904200E0146
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 6 February 2008
83 m awayRef 200842I039702
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 201342I289909 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 2013.