Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO6 on 14 January 1985 at 09:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Babergh at 09:40 on Monday 14 January 1985. The 33-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 1985
- Monday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96554, longitude 0.84654, in the CO6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373008000
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 33, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1985373008000 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 1985.