B1065 crash in Babergh on 28 October 2007 at 01:06 involving an Aprilia MX 50 motorcycle
An Aprilia MX 50 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B1065 in Babergh at 01:06 on Sunday 28 October 2007. A 21-year-old male pedestrian and the 16-year-old male rider were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2007
- Sunday, 01:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia MX 50
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09782, longitude 0.66839, in the CO10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B029186
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 23 February 1985
10 m awayRef 1985373033400
Serious
Car crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 25 August 1985
14 m awayRef 1985373146000
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1065 in West Suffolk, 28 August 2003
30 m awayRef 200337B017514
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 29 October 1991
32 m awayRef 1991373531900
Slight
Van crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 25 February 1986
40 m awayRef 1986373032900
Serious
Car crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 26 May 1984
51 m awayRef 1984373089700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia MX 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Aprilia MX 50)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia MX 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 200737B029186 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 2007.