Serious A14 crash in West Suffolk on 10 August 2000 at 20:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 20:30 on Thursday 10 August 2000. The 51-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2655, longitude 0.58113, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B008825
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 7 August 2001
36 m awayRef 200137B011545
Slight
New Holland crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 5 September 2004
54 m awayRef 200437B020331
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 55 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 22 January 2001
60 m awayRef 200137B009869
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 April 1997
72 m awayRef 199737B000884
Fatal
Car crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 13 October 1987
110 m awayRef 1987373184400
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 15 November 1998
143 m awayRef 199837B004611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200037B008825 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 2000.