Serious unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 6 August 2020 at 11:33 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 11:33 on Thursday 6 August 2020. The 54-year-old male rider 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
- 6 Aug 2020
- Thursday, 11:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30421, longitude 0.49299, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Red Lodge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Iceni, West Suffolk, IP28 8XA area accident hotspot. 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
- 2020370970803
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 25 March 1997
58 m awayRef 199737B000807
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 5 April 1988
75 m awayRef 1988373066400
Serious
Nissan Terrano crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 17 October 2007
98 m awayRef 200737B029164
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 27 September 2008
121 m awayRef 200837B040744
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 June 2005
132 m awayRef 200537B022662
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 21 May 1982
135 m awayRef 1982373083600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020370970803 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 2020.