Serious C road crash in Babergh on 22 December 1986 at 21:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Babergh at 21:30 on Monday 22 December 1986. The 23-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 22 Dec 1986; Monday, 21:30
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986373233100
Council area: Babergh
Police force: Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 23, motorcyclist, 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 1986373233100 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.