A1214 crash in Ipswich on 16 June 2003 at 16:18 involving a Bedford
A Bedford and a Suzuki AP 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1214 in Ipswich at 16:18 on Monday 16 June 2003. The 58-year-old male rider of the Suzuki AP 50 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 Jun 2003
- Monday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bedford and Suzuki AP 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06159, longitude 1.19515, in the IP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bixley, Ipswich, IP4 4BF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337G013299
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1214
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A12 in Ipswich, 2 May 1985
At the same spotRef 1985371071300
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A1214 in Ipswich, 23 April 2024
9 m awayRef 2024371434878
Serious
Volvo crash on the A1214 in Ipswich, 21 November 2024
18 m awayRef 2024371519744
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1214 in Ipswich, 14 February 2014
25 m awayRef 201437EA79321
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A12 in Ipswich, 23 July 1985
32 m awayRef 1985371120300
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A1214 in Ipswich, 20 September 1999
36 m awayRef 199937G005011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki AP 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki AP 50)
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 200337G013299 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 2003.