A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 6 July 2006 at 22:45 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406, a motorcycle and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 22:45 on Thursday 6 July 2006. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2006
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 406 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34786, longitude 0.51089, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mildenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mildenhall Kingsway & Market, West Suffolk, IP28 7LW 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
- 200637B025637
- 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
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2002.
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 18 June 2002
20 m awayRef 200237B014024
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 1 September 2000
20 m awayRef 200037B008980
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 25 August 1989
22 m awayRef 1989373156700
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 16 September 1989
28 m awayRef 1989373239800
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 23 November 1984
30 m awayRef 1984373215500
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 18 December 1984
30 m awayRef 1984373237700
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 3 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200637B025637 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 2006.