Serious unclassified road crash in Watford WD24 on 30 March 2014 at 14:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Watford at 14:00 on Sunday 30 March 2014. The 29-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Mar 2014
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67109, longitude -0.40115, in the WD24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Callowland, Watford, WD24 7BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Watford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20144100C0322
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1996.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 31 May 1996
At the same spotRef 19964100C0314
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Seat Toledo crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 16 June 2003
At the same spotRef 20034100C0778
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 25 June 2007
10 m awayRef 20074100C0647
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 10 June 1999
10 m awayRef 19994100C0337
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 11 May 2009
10 m awayRef 20094100C0397
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Watford, 9 November 2011
10 m awayRef 20114100C1078
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 20144100C0322 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Watford road accident statistics for 2014.