B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 31 October 1985 at 13:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 13:40 on Thursday 31 October 1985. The 73-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25209, longitude 0.39584, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373186000
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2013.
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 4 January 2013
9 m awayRef 201337EA77203
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 17 June 2025
10 m awayRef 2025371619360
Slight
Aprilia crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 7 October 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370404311
Slight
Audi Cabriolet crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 10 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200737B029298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 18 September 2018
12 m awayRef 2018370336620
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 22 August 1987
20 m awayRef 1987373148900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 73, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 1985373186000 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1985.