Serious B1008 crash in Chelmsford on 13 December 2015 at 13:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1008 in Chelmsford at 13:15 on Sunday 13 December 2015. The 35-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81343, longitude 0.45646, in the CM3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420035348
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1008
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2003.
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 27 May 2003
12 m awayRef 20034200C0301
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 28 December 2016
20 m awayRef 2016420140546
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 28 December 2020
28 m awayRef 2020421010304
Serious
Honda crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 23 February 1990
28 m awayRef 19904200C0250
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 13 August 2010
28 m awayRef 201042I259808
Slight
Car crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 31 May 1980
28 m awayRef 1980420030413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2015420035348 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2015.