B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 12 November 2005 at 20:17 involving a Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 20:17 on Saturday 12 November 2005. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2005
- Saturday, 20:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1100
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25187, longitude 0.39586, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket North, West Suffolk, CB8 0DZ 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B023753
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2007.
Slight
Audi Cabriolet crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 10 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200737B029298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 17 June 2025
12 m awayRef 2025371619360
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 4 January 2013
12 m awayRef 201337EA77203
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 18 September 2018
14 m awayRef 2018370336620
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 8 February 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373021800
Serious
Van crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 2 April 2013
17 m awayRef 201337EA70678
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1100
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,052 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1100)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200537B023753 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 2005.