Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO10 on 28 August 1983 at 23:59 involving a motorcycle
A vehicle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 23:59 on Sunday 28 August 1983. A 19-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 1983
- Sunday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10104, longitude 0.67482, in the CO10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983373147100
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1992.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1983373147100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 1983.