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A1308 crash in Mid Suffolk on 31 July 1990 at 22:45 involving a Kawasaki AR50 motorcycle

A Kawasaki AR50 motorcycle crashed on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk at 22:45 on Tuesday 31 July 1990. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
31 Jul 1990
Tuesday, 22:45
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki AR50
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18012, longitude 1.0058, in the IP14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stowmarket.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990373133000
Council area
Mid Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1308
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki AR50

    Motorcycle 50cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years
    Engine capacity
    48 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki AR50)

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 1990373133000 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 1990.