Serious A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 2 November 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 18:00 on Saturday 2 November 1985. The 21-year-old female 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, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Nov 1985
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41351, longitude 0.42634, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373187200
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 8 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199737B002393
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 3 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199937B006307
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 21 December 2011
45 m awayRef 2011370526211
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 14 August 1992
173 m awayRef 1992373434900
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 16 July 2003
260 m awayRef 200337B017063
Slight
John Deere crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 24 October 2005
519 m awayRef 200537B023610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 21, motorcyclist, 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 1985373187200 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.