Serious B1057 crash in Uttlesford on 11 July 2014 at 19:50 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle crashed on the B1057 in Uttlesford at 19:50 on Friday 11 July 2014. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2014
- Friday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89709, longitude 0.39636, in the CM6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I270907
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1057
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 53 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 October 1998.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 3 October 1998
53 m awayRef 19984200A0663
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 26 November 1991
81 m awayRef 19914200G0808
Slight
Car crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 17 October 1985
126 m awayRef 19854200G0711
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 2 December 2013
203 m awayRef 201342I379312
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 11 October 1994
210 m awayRef 19944200A0449
Serious
Van crash on the B1057 in Uttlesford, 21 February 1984
222 m awayRef 19844200G0104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R1)
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 201442I270907 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 2014.