Serious B1117 crash in Mid Suffolk on 19 May 2024 at 13:12 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk at 13:12 on Sunday 19 May 2024. The 39-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 May 2024
- Sunday, 13:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30838, longitude 1.24649, in the IP21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024371445207
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1117
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 May 1983.
Fatal
Van crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 9 May 1983
8 m awayRef 1983372047500
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 11 March 2003
90 m awayRef 200337B016157
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 22 August 1982
218 m awayRef 1982372091300
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 6 July 1995
315 m awayRef 1995372203530
Slight
Peugeot Zenith crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 2 November 1998
361 m awayRef 199837L002420
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 21 January 1998
415 m awayRef 199837L001406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024371445207 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2024.