Unclassified road crash in Cambridge CB4 on 19 December 2017 at 05:56 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A Honda GLR 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cambridge at 05:56 on Tuesday 19 December 2017. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 05:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22106, longitude 0.1295, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 2AP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017350255254
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2016.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 12 May 2016
At the same spotRef 2016350083145
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 6 May 1983
68 m awayRef 1983352091483
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cambridge, 23 January 1988
80 m awayRef 1988352020488
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 27 April 2004
92 m awayRef 2004350210204
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 15 April 2015
93 m awayRef 2015350046915
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 16 July 2010
121 m awayRef 2010351685310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
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 2017350255254 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2017.