Serious A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 28 November 1985 at 16:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 16:40 on Thursday 28 November 1985. The 17-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2551, longitude 0.86608, in the IP31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373208800
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1088
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 September 2018.
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 28 September 2018
12 m awayRef 2018370336341
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 12 May 2013
14 m awayRef 201337EA71456
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 2 March 2013
16 m awayRef 201337EA72660
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 5 May 2023
17 m awayRef 2023371305692
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 2 April 2023
19 m awayRef 2023371295386
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 5 July 1980
28 m awayRef 1980373112100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 17, 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 1985373208800 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.