A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 1 March 2003 at 18:35 involving a Honda NTV600K motorcycle
A Honda NTV600K motorcycle crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 18:35 on Saturday 1 March 2003. The 40-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda NTV600K
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23047, longitude 0.89339, in the IP30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elmswell & Woolpit, Mid Suffolk, IP30 9WJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B016117
- Council area
- Mid 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 14
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 9 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B023495
Serious
Honda CBR125R crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 20 January 2017
19 m awayRef 2017370151819
Slight
Yamaha MT07 crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 16 June 2020
21 m awayRef 2020370957769
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 5 January 2014
28 m awayRef 201437EA77207
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 6 January 2002
30 m awayRef 200237B012795
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 29 November 2016
40 m awayRef 2016370139315
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda NTV600K
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda NTV600K)
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 200337B016117 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2003.