A134 crash in Babergh on 18 September 2014 at 15:37 involving a Honda CBR600F motorcycle
A Honda CBR600F motorcycle and a Ford Focus taxi were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 15:37 on Thursday 18 September 2014. The 37-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR600F motorcycle 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
- 18 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 15:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR600F and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97691, longitude 0.85775, in the CO6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA83879
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A134 in Babergh, 22 February 1982
7 m awayRef 1982373033900
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A134 in Babergh, 1 December 1997
7 m awayRef 199737B002303
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on the A134 in Babergh, 7 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B005910
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A134 in Babergh, 28 June 2013
13 m awayRef 201337EA72491
Slight
Van crash on the A134 in Babergh, 7 September 1990
21 m awayRef 1990373155200
Fatal
Car crash on the A134 in Babergh, 6 October 1989
21 m awayRef 1989373188500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR600F)
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 201437EA83879 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 2014.