Serious A143 crash in West Suffolk on 26 August 2002 at 07:50 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A143 in West Suffolk at 07:50 on Monday 26 August 2002. The 33-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 2002
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29457, longitude 0.83846, in the IP31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ixworth, West Suffolk, IP31 2ER area accident hotspot. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B014476
- 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
- 143
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1088
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 2018.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 31 August 2018
8 m awayRef 2018370323602
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 16 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B021458
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 11 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B026070
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 15 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200937B041806
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 16 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B022150
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 25 March 1986
14 m awayRef 1986373049900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 918 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200237B014476 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 2002.