Serious C road crash in Central Bedfordshire MK43 on 8 May 2016 at 00:27 involving a Honda CB600F motorcycle
A Honda CB600F motorcycle crashed on a C road in Central Bedfordshire at 00:27 on Sunday 8 May 2016. The 22-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2016
- Sunday, 00:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07066, longitude -0.60688, in the MK43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cranfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016400102243
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 2000.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 1 July 2000
15 m awayRef 2000400D02005
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 4 June 1992
21 m awayRef 19924000D0784
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 31 August 1992
21 m awayRef 19924000D1225
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 16 October 1989
21 m awayRef 19894000D1806
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 14 August 1985
21 m awayRef 19854000D1385
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Central Bedfordshire, 9 December 1984
21 m awayRef 19844000D2131
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600F)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016400102243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 2016.