Serious unclassified road crash in West Suffolk CB8 on 23 June 2017 at 15:45 involving a BMW M1
A BMW M1 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 15:45 on Friday 23 June 2017. The 44-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jun 2017
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW M1 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25174, longitude 0.48259, in the CB8 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017370200562
- 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
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2004.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 5 December 2004
42 m awayRef 200437B021107
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 4 May 1981
52 m awayRef 1981373074500
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 5 November 1990
63 m awayRef 1990373193000
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 20 October 1996
108 m awayRef 1996373404530
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 29 December 2018
168 m awayRef 2018370355687
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 22 July 2017
176 m awayRef 2017370210339
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW M1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 44, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017370200562 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.