C road crash in Babergh IP29 on 28 July 1987 at 22:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Babergh at 22:20 on Tuesday 28 July 1987. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1987
- Tuesday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17054, longitude 0.71482, in the IP29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987373135800
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 13 January 2022
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Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in Babergh, 27 February 2001
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Babergh, 7 April 2010
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 25 August 1985
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Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 November 2000
215 m awayRef 200037B009505
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Babergh, 10 May 2004
215 m awayRef 200437B019470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 1987373135800 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 1987.