A1071 crash in Babergh on 25 November 2000 at 20:20 involving a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1071 in Babergh at 20:20 on Saturday 25 November 2000. The 28-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2000
- Saturday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZX400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05282, longitude 0.97015, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009621
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1071
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1070
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 2003.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 12 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B018376
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 11 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B010067
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 14 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199837B003333
Serious
Car crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 2 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983373216500
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 26 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B019186
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 2 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B018840
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX400
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX400)
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 200037B009621 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 2000.