A106 crash in Waltham Forest on 13 October 2023 at 08:05 involving a Yamaha GPD motorcycle
A Yamaha GPD motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest at 08:05 on Friday 13 October 2023. The 31-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2023
- Friday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha GPD and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57018, longitude 0.01252, in the E11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leytonstone, Waltham Forest, E11 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010471902
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 106
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 May 1998.
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in Waltham Forest, 8 May 1998
11 m awayRef 199801JL00171
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 6 May 2003
12 m awayRef 200301JC00316
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 7 October 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010403412
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 20 September 2020
15 m awayRef 2020010269321
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A106 in Waltham Forest, 26 March 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010566054
Slight
Car crash on the A2203 in Greenwich, 6 August 1982
31 m awayRef 1982010RD0545
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2023010471902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2023.