Serious A143 crash in Mid Suffolk on 19 April 2012 at 08:03 involving a Pulse XF 125 motorcycle
A Pulse XF 125 motorcycle crashed on the A143 in Mid Suffolk at 08:03 on Thursday 19 April 2012. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2012
- Thursday, 08:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Pulse XF 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34379, longitude 1.02928, in the IP22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370147612
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1113
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2004.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 25 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200437B021011
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 23 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011370536211
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 23 December 2006
20 m awayRef 200637B026983
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 29 June 2007
20 m awayRef 200737B028282
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 26 August 2008
30 m awayRef 200837B040559
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 7 December 1998
32 m awayRef 199837B004775
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Pulse XF 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Pulse XF 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 2012370147612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2012.