Unclassified road crash in Barnet NW9 on 11 November 2017 at 14:50 involving a Piaggio Liberty motorcycle
A Piaggio Liberty motorcycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnet at 14:50 on Saturday 11 November 2017. The 31-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Liberty motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Liberty and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59524, longitude -0.24297, in the NW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colindale North, Barnet, NW9 5PE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010069544
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Liberty
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Liberty)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017010069544 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2017.