C road crash in Babergh CO10 on 21 November 1985 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 16:00 on Thursday 21 November 1985. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 18-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02973, longitude 0.75658, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373203300
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1987.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 1 May 1987
At the same spotRef 1987373071800
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 December 2007
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Babergh, 20 February 2011
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Babergh, 5 July 1999
50 m awayRef 199937B006085
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 18 December 2002
89 m awayRef 200237B015487
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1985373203300 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.