A1017 crash in West Suffolk on 15 October 2006 at 13:42 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A1017 in West Suffolk at 13:42 on Sunday 15 October 2006. The 32-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2006
- Sunday, 13:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07272, longitude 0.42318, in the CB9 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200637B026383
- 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
- 1017
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2015.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 22 August 2015
4 m awayRef 201537EA93017
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 3 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200237B014817
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 22 October 2011
20 m awayRef 2011370421411
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 26 April 2024
35 m awayRef 2024371441090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 27 January 2014
54 m awayRef 201437EA80176
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 30 April 2012
64 m awayRef 2012370169112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200637B026383 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.