A1231 crash in Sunderland on 27 May 2014 at 07:50 involving a Honda FES125 motorcycle
A Honda FES125 motorcycle crashed on the A1231 in Sunderland at 07:50 on Tuesday 27 May 2014. The 28-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2014
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda FES125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90276, longitude -1.53504, in the NE37 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Washington Central, Sunderland, NE37 1NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100299814
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1231
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1992.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 11 May 1992
14 m awayRef 199210F410892
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 11 May 1992
14 m awayRef 199210F411192
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 5 August 2002
14 m awayRef 2002100098402
Serious
Car crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 27 March 1988
18 m awayRef 198810F406988
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 7 May 2024
18 m awayRef 2024101440108
Serious
Car crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 28 July 1982
23 m awayRef 198210F414382
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda FES125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda FES125)
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 2014100299814 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 2014.