B1125 crash in East Suffolk on 16 August 1985 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1125 in East Suffolk at 13:45 on Friday 16 August 1985. The 35-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1985
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31192, longitude 1.59877, in the IP19 postcode district. 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
- 1985372085500
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1125
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1387
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 March 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 28 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982372033800
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 23 April 1994
At the same spotRef 1994372202270
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 11 June 1996
At the same spotRef 1996372202950
Slight
Car crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 23 March 1989
At the same spotRef 1989372033600
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 5 May 1993
At the same spotRef 1993372202310
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B1125 in East Suffolk, 21 November 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370474711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, 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 1985372085500 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 1985.