Serious C road crash in Babergh IP29 on 25 August 1985 at 19:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 19:42 on Sunday 25 August 1985. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 19:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17204, longitude 0.71623, in the IP29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373144700
- Council area
- Babergh
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2000.
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 November 2000
22 m awayRef 200037B009505
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Babergh, 10 May 2004
22 m awayRef 200437B019470
Slight
Renault 9 crash on a C road in Babergh, 15 January 1997
71 m awayRef 199737B000346
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in Babergh, 23 November 2004
73 m awayRef 200437B020965
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Babergh, 7 April 2010
98 m awayRef 201037B044702
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Babergh, 13 January 1995
184 m awayRef 1995373300240
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 1985373144700 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.