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Serious A1308 crash in Mid Suffolk on 1 August 1987 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk at 16:30 on Saturday 1 August 1987. The 26-year-old male rider was 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
1 Aug 1987
Saturday, 16:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19849, longitude 0.99065, in the IP14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987373134800
Council area
Mid Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1308
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
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 26, 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 1987373134800 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 1987.