Serious A414 crash in Harlow on 24 October 2016 at 13:40 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A414 in Harlow at 13:40 on Monday 24 October 2016. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Oct 2016
- Monday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Yamaha WR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78471, longitude 0.11502, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mark Hall, Harlow, CM20 2PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420118934
- Council area
- Harlow
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2025.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A414 in Harlow, 23 June 2025
1 m awayRef 2025421606718
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A414 in Harlow, 19 July 2019
1 m awayRef 2019420859732
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A141 in Harlow, 6 October 2003
6 m awayRef 20034200G0863
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Harlow, 9 May 2006
18 m awayRef 200642G032805
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A414 in Harlow, 27 March 1997
18 m awayRef 19974200G0222
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Harlow, 7 February 1983
24 m awayRef 19834200G0090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha WR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha WR 125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016420118934 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2016.