Serious B1084 crash in East Suffolk on 31 March 2012 at 17:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX1400 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1400 motorcycle crashed on the B1084 in East Suffolk at 17:00 on Saturday 31 March 2012. The 48-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10407, longitude 1.52815, in the IP12 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370131112
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1084
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 11 October 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370421711
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 2 March 2016
38 m awayRef 2016370051965
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 19 May 2017
38 m awayRef 2017370190493
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 14 October 2008
50 m awayRef 200837G025855
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 11 September 2020
59 m awayRef 2020370984025
Slight
Datsun Patrol crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 14 March 1993
61 m awayRef 1993371701620
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1400
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,352 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1400)
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 2012370131112 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 2012.