A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 16 December 1986 at 07:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 07:45 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. The 21-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986373225900
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1304
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1986373225900 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 1986.