B1066 crash in West Suffolk on 8 August 2010 at 15:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B1066 in West Suffolk at 15:30 on Sunday 8 August 2010. The 43-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2010
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19687, longitude 0.68266, in the IP29 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
- 201037B045470
- 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
- 1066
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 February 1994.
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 19 February 1994
10 m awayRef 1994373301220
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 1 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200037B008999
Slight
Car crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 16 November 2004
50 m awayRef 200437B020910
Serious
Car crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 12 October 1983
51 m awayRef 1983373177700
Slight
Car crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 26 November 1987
64 m awayRef 1987373219500
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 24 October 2014
91 m awayRef 201437EA84749
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 201037B045470 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 2010.