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A143 crash in West Suffolk on 24 March 1991 at 12:12 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle

A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A143 in West Suffolk at 12:12 on Sunday 24 March 1991. The 43-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Mar 1991
Sunday, 12:12
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25606, longitude 0.71887, in the IP32 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.

Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1991373049300
Council area
West Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
143
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
45

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    43 years
    Engine capacity
    997 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 43, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)

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 1991373049300 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1991.