B1127 crash in East Suffolk on 29 May 1987 at 17:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1127 in East Suffolk at 17:05 on Friday 29 May 1987. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 1987
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35205, longitude 1.68282, in the IP18 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987372052800
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1127
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2013.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 28 August 2013
9 m awayRef 201337EA73811
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 27 October 2000
30 m awayRef 200037L004940
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 30 December 2004
41 m awayRef 200437L011030
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 18 November 1995
50 m awayRef 1995372205830
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 7 July 1989
50 m awayRef 1989372086200
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 27 March 2025
63 m awayRef 2025371570120
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 1987372052800 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1987.