Serious A136 crash in Tendring on 25 August 2015 at 10:25 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A136 in Tendring at 10:25 on Tuesday 25 August 2015. The 67-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson 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
- 25 Aug 2015
- Tuesday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar X Type and Harley-Davidson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94429, longitude 1.28815, in the CO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harwich.
Map of where the crash happened in Tendring
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201542I288408
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 136
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2014.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 19 December 2014
9 m awayRef 201442I438512
Slight
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 24 August 1982
22 m awayRef 1982420040335
Serious
Car crash on the A136 in Tendring, 8 October 1981
22 m awayRef 1981420040354
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A136 in Tendring, 4 September 1980
22 m awayRef 1980420040330
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 14 May 1987
22 m awayRef 19874200E0588
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 11 May 1989
22 m awayRef 19894200E0489
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 67, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson)
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 201542I288408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2015.