A111 crash in Enfield on 1 February 2023 at 11:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Triumph Tiger motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A111 in Enfield at 11:30 on Wednesday 1 February 2023. The 74-year-old male rider of the Triumph Tiger motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2023
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Triumph Tiger
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6577, longitude -0.15324, in the EN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Enfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockfosters, Enfield, EN4 9LT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010424696
- Council area
- Enfield
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 111
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A111 in Enfield, 17 May 1983
1 m awayRef 1983010YF0329
Slight
DS DS3 crash on the A111 in Enfield, 3 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010601527
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A111 in Enfield, 4 December 2019
14 m awayRef 2019010223012
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A111 in Enfield, 23 September 2013
19 m awayRef 201301YE80586
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A111 in Enfield, 18 February 2000
19 m awayRef 200001YF00151
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A111 in Enfield, 10 August 1994
19 m awayRef 199401YF00319
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Triumph Tiger
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 74, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Tiger)
- 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 2023010424696 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 2023.