B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 6 June 2015 at 23:59 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 23:59 on Saturday 6 June 2015. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2015
- Saturday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30461, longitude 0.69492, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA90895
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1106
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 18 July 1989
6 m awayRef 1989373132600
Slight
Fiat Fiorino crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 29 June 2022
8 m awayRef 2022371195597
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 28 July 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373131300
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 3 January 2011
18 m awayRef 2011370001011
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B1116 in West Suffolk, 17 September 2005
18 m awayRef 200537B023327
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 18 August 2012
27 m awayRef 2012370337112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 201537EA90895 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 2015.