C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP14 on 25 January 1985 at 07:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 07:30 on Friday 25 January 1985. The 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 1985
- Friday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22781, longitude 0.96948, in the IP14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373015300
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 April 1998.
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 28 April 1998
40 m awayRef 199837B003251
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 2 August 2001
150 m awayRef 200137B011480
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 13 August 1997
201 m awayRef 199737B001620
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 22 May 2003
260 m awayRef 200337B016641
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 6 October 2013
264 m awayRef 201337EA74776
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 1 December 1988
267 m awayRef 1988373238300
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 1985373015300 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 1985.