Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 27 February 2017 at 16:00 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 16:00 on Monday 27 February 2017. The 25-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2017
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3716, longitude 0.48567, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beck Row. 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
- 2017370169595
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 30 May 1983
15 m awayRef 1983373089900
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 10 October 1992
26 m awayRef 1992373444600
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 1 May 1989
47 m awayRef 1989373082500
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 16 February 1986
47 m awayRef 1986373027500
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 15 August 1986
47 m awayRef 1986373137300
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 18 October 1990
57 m awayRef 1990373183500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017370169595 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 2017.