A1302 crash in West Suffolk on 25 February 2011 at 15:45 involving a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle crashed on the A1302 in West Suffolk at 15:45 on Friday 25 February 2011. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2011
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24188, longitude 0.70823, in the IP33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbeygate, West Suffolk, IP33 3XP area accident hotspot. 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
- 2011370085611
- 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
- 1302
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 July 2003.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 17 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200337B017060
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 2 July 1989
14 m awayRef 1989373125400
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 28 September 1984
30 m awayRef 1984373169700
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 8 September 2003
32 m awayRef 200337B017475
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 19 July 1996
32 m awayRef 1996373304620
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 16 August 1989
32 m awayRef 1989373151700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XC 125)
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 2011370085611 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 2011.