A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 4 May 2014 at 15:00 involving a Honda VTR1000F motorcycle
A Honda VTR1000F motorcycle crashed on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 15:00 on Sunday 4 May 2014. The 50-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2014
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda VTR1000F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33676, longitude 0.56119, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA80021
- 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
- 1101
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 December 1997.
Serious
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 8 December 1997
6 m awayRef 199737B002380
Slight
Honda crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 30 April 1996
12 m awayRef 1996373401860
Serious
Honda crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 20 April 1994
13 m awayRef 1994373401910
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 5 May 2011
19 m awayRef 2011370198611
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 11 June 2003
22 m awayRef 200337B016781
Serious
Kawasaki ZX400 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 28 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200137B010799
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda VTR1000F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda VTR1000F)
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 201437EA80021 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 2014.