A142 crash in West Suffolk on 17 August 2021 at 13:20 involving a Lexmoto Titan motorcycle
A Lexmoto Titan motorcycle crashed on the A142 in West Suffolk at 13:20 on Tuesday 17 August 2021. The 28-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2021
- Tuesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Titan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27563, longitude 0.3939, in the CB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exning, West Suffolk, CB8 7LH 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021371096069
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Other
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 2 May 2012
13 m awayRef 2012370175412
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 12 November 2000
41 m awayRef 200037B009474
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 16 July 1990
43 m awayRef 1990373124100
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 9 May 2015
48 m awayRef 201537EA93052
Serious
Car crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 13 August 1989
61 m awayRef 1989373218800
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 24 January 1986
64 m awayRef 1986373014000
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Titan
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Titan)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021371096069 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 2021.