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A1156 crash in Ipswich on 14 July 2011 at 23:05 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A1156 in Ipswich at 23:05 on Thursday 14 July 2011. The 34-year-old male rider and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Jul 2011
Thursday, 23:05
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05283, longitude 1.15995, in the IP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alexandra, Ipswich, IP4 1DX area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2011370285111
Council area
Ipswich
Police force
Suffolk
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1156
Road type
One way street
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
Dark, street lights lit
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
17%
Estimated chance it was slight
83%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2003.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle over 500cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 20, 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 2011370285111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ipswich road accident statistics for 2011.