C road crash in West Suffolk IP33 on 9 September 1992 at 22:03 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in West Suffolk at 22:03 on Wednesday 9 September 1992. The 58-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 1992
- Wednesday, 22:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Kawasaki KH125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24937, longitude 0.72813, in the IP33 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992373364800
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 1 June 1998
10 m awayRef 199837B003453
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Slight
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10 m awayRef 200737B028439
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Mercedes crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 20 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B022863
Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki KH125
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki KH125)
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 1992373364800 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 1992.