Serious B1065 crash in Babergh on 22 May 1986 at 09:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B1065 in Babergh at 09:20 on Thursday 22 May 1986. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 40-year-old female pedestrian hit by the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 1986
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10283, longitude 0.66733, in the CO10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986373087300
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1065
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 7 November 1993
10 m awayRef 1993373505390
Slight
Car crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 31 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982373200400
Slight
Car crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 15 April 1988
54 m awayRef 1988373072100
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 23 September 1991
58 m awayRef 1991373526800
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 1 January 2001
64 m awayRef 200137B009981
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 14 November 2008
64 m awayRef 200837B041117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 1986373087300 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 1986.