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Serious A146 crash in East Suffolk on 19 October 1996 at 22:00 involving a Kawasaki VN750 motorcycle

A Kawasaki VN750 motorcycle and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A146 in East Suffolk at 22:00 on Saturday 19 October 1996. The 20-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki VN750 motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Oct 1996
Saturday, 22:00
Vehicles
2
Kawasaki VN750 and Ford Sierra
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45747, longitude 1.69162, in the NR33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. The location was in the former Waveney district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996372104420
Council area
East Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk
Highway authority
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
146
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1982.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki VN750

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    123 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    51 years
    Engine capacity
    1,597 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki VN750)

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 1996372104420 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1996.