Serious unclassified road crash in East Suffolk NR32 on 2 September 2011 at 18:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 18:30 on Friday 2 September 2011. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Sep 2011
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49386, longitude 1.75427, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011370345211
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1993.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 1 May 1993
92 m awayRef 1993372101670
Slight
Honda CBF500 crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 18 October 2005
98 m awayRef 200537L012046
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 19 December 2017
123 m awayRef 2017370257780
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1385 in East Suffolk, 26 July 2025
131 m awayRef 2025371648746
Serious
Piaggio NRG crash on the B1385 in East Suffolk, 1 June 2004
134 m awayRef 200437L010082
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1385 in East Suffolk, 15 August 1989
142 m awayRef 1989372091700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2011370345211 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2011.