Serious B1048 crash in East Suffolk on 24 September 2017 at 09:30 involving a KTM 1290 Superduke motorcycle
A KTM 1290 Superduke motorcycle crashed on the B1048 in East Suffolk at 09:30 on Sunday 24 September 2017. The 51-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2017
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- KTM 1290 Superduke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10458, longitude 1.40225, in the IP12 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017370222698
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1048
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Very 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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 22 January 1986
52 m awayRef 1986371012500
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 6 December 2000
72 m awayRef 200037G007394
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 30 December 1996
91 m awayRef 199637G000263
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 7 March 2011
130 m awayRef 2011370104011
Serious
Car crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 28 March 1989
140 m awayRef 1989371046900
Slight
Car crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 2 June 1987
140 m awayRef 1987371078200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: KTM 1290 Superduke
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (KTM 1290 Superduke)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017370222698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2017.