Serious unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 31 January 2009 at 15:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 15:42 on Saturday 31 January 2009. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2009
- Saturday, 15:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34689, longitude 0.50144, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mildenhall. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937B041716
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2009.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 29 July 2009
30 m awayRef 200937B042839
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 23 December 1999
51 m awayRef 199937B007293
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 October 2002
102 m awayRef 200237B015010
Slight
Skyjet SJ 125 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 28 October 2007
104 m awayRef 200737B029156
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 1 August 2007
104 m awayRef 200737B028531
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 5 May 2005
104 m awayRef 200537B022273
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 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 200937B041716 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 2009.