A1189 crash in Ipswich on 16 February 2002 at 09:50 involving a Honda C50LA motorcycle
A car and a Honda C50LA motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1189 in Ipswich at 09:50 on Saturday 16 February 2002. The 16-year-old male rider of the Honda C50LA motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda C50LA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04938, longitude 1.20099, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bixley, Ipswich, IP3 8NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237G010085
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1189
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2023.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 25 April 2023
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Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 2 December 2016
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Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 12 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200537G016756
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 3 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983371073500
Serious
Car crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 5 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986371145200
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 14 November 2000
14 m awayRef 200037G007247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
Vehicle 2: Honda C50LA
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda C50LA)
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 200237G010085 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ipswich road accident statistics for 2002.