A137 crash in Babergh on 30 November 2004 at 12:45 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2004
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03334, longitude 1.14881, in the IP2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridge, Ipswich, IP2 8RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200437G016371
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2011.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 9 November 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370452811
Slight
Lorry crash on the A137 in Babergh, 27 October 1987
20 m awayRef 1987371165300
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on the A137 in Babergh, 22 January 2025
22 m awayRef 2025371545048
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A137 in Babergh, 23 May 1992
36 m awayRef 1992371646300
Slight
Mini One crash on the B1456 in Babergh, 6 March 2017
49 m awayRef 2017370168181
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on the A137 in Babergh, 28 June 1996
50 m awayRef 1996371607580
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 200437G016371 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 2004.