Serious unclassified road crash in Rochford SS5 on 25 December 2014 at 15:54 involving a Triumph Tiger motorcycle
A Triumph Tiger motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rochford at 15:54 on Thursday 25 December 2014. The 53-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Tiger
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61718, longitude 0.62704, in the SS5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rochford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201442I445112
- Council area
- Rochford
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 31 May 1992
4 m awayRef 19924200H0378
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 19 April 1997
4 m awayRef 19974200J0151
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 10 April 2007
18 m awayRef 200742I137704
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 27 September 1997
26 m awayRef 19974200J0426
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 9 September 1995
32 m awayRef 19954200J0394
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 8 December 1989
33 m awayRef 19894200H1196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Tiger
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Tiger)
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 201442I445112 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochford road accident statistics for 2014.