A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 31 December 2020 at 15:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 15:15 on Thursday 31 December 2020. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26974, longitude 0.69932, in the IP32 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
- 2020371014142
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 December 2007.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 4 December 2007
30 m awayRef 200737B029562
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 11 July 1980
30 m awayRef 1980373118600
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 10 January 1980
34 m awayRef 1980373005500
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 1 June 1983
47 m awayRef 1983373089500
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 20 September 2001
48 m awayRef 200137B011882
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 7 December 2020
99 m awayRef 2020371006783
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020371014142 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.