A154 crash in East Suffolk on 26 May 1983 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A154 in East Suffolk at 13:00 on Thursday 26 May 1983. The 50-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1983
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9525, longitude 1.33596, in the IP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Felixstowe. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983371087600
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 154
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 16 October 2022
7 m awayRef 2022371245866
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 5 July 2017
8 m awayRef 2017370208927
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in East Suffolk, 31 July 1987
10 m awayRef 1987371113800
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in East Suffolk, 12 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993371704400
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in East Suffolk, 28 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986371159100
Slight
Bus crash on the A45 in East Suffolk, 20 September 1980
10 m awayRef 1980371162600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 50, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 1983371087600 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1983.