Unclassified road crash in Rochford SS6 on 31 January 2017 at 12:25 involving a Citroen DS3
A motorcycle and a Citroen DS3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rochford at 12:25 on Tuesday 31 January 2017. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Citroen DS3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5811, longitude 0.60384, in the SS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rayleigh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wheatley, Rochford, SS6 7TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rochford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420151163
- Council area
- Rochford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2018.
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 3 May 2018
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 8 March 1979
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 23 September 1979
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Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 30 October 2016
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 8 September 2003
81 m awayRef 20034200J0363
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochford, 25 May 1985
108 m awayRef 19854200H0412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2017420151163 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochford road accident statistics for 2017.