B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 7 November 2008 at 08:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 08:00 on Friday 7 November 2008. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2008
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28077, longitude 0.7065, in the IP28 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
- 200837B041037
- 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
- 1106
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 4 July 1981
92 m awayRef 1981373113400
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 30 September 2013
102 m awayRef 201337EA74574
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 30 October 2000
130 m awayRef 200037B009530
Serious
Van crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 27 April 1982
134 m awayRef 1982373070800
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 16 September 1995
221 m awayRef 1995373306540
Serious
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 18 October 1980
242 m awayRef 1980373177200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200837B041037 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 2008.