Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A12 crash in East Suffolk on 12 August 2024 at 15:00 involving a Kymco Visar 125 motorcycle

A Kymco Visar 125 motorcycle crashed on the A12 in East Suffolk at 15:00 on Monday 12 August 2024. The 20-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
12 Aug 2024
Monday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Kymco Visar 125
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18573, longitude 1.44241, in the IP17 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
2024371479375
Council area
East Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
12
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
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kymco Visar 125

    Motorcycle 125cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    125 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    10% most deprived
    Distance from driver's home
    20 to 100 km

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Kymco Visar 125)

    Serious injury band
    Less serious
    Home area deprivation
    10% most 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 2024371479375 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 2024.