Serious A142 crash in West Suffolk on 20 September 2003 at 09:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A142 in West Suffolk at 09:45 on Saturday 20 September 2003. The 25-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2003
- Saturday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27013, longitude 0.39128, in the CB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exning, West Suffolk, CB8 7LH area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017592
- 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
- 142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2007.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 20 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200737B028650
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 18 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200037B008686
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 28 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200937B042449
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 23 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200237B014253
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 1 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B019623
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 18 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B011605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 200337B017592 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 2003.