A140 crash in Mid Suffolk on 24 December 1986 at 10:13 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk at 10:13 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 10:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986372148200
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1117
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1986372148200 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 1986.