Serious A142 crash in West Suffolk on 20 December 1979 at 17:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A142 in West Suffolk at 17:15 on Thursday 20 December 1979. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LKRDD17
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 197937LKRDD17 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1979.