A1088 crash in West Suffolk on 12 December 2024 at 17:25 involving a Lexmoto Isca 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Isca 125 motorcycle and a BMW IX were involved in a crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk at 17:25 on Thursday 12 December 2024. The 17-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Isca 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto Isca 125 and BMW IX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37579, longitude 0.78388, in the IP24 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024371538441
- 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
- 1088
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 10 September 2022
13 m awayRef 2022371218934
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 5 September 1993
19 m awayRef 1993373305640
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 19 November 1990
19 m awayRef 1990373206500
Serious
Car crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 13 July 2001
26 m awayRef 200137B011325
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 15 May 2021
32 m awayRef 2021371049519
Slight
Scania crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 12 February 2007
40 m awayRef 200737B027404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Isca 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: BMW IX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Isca 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2024371538441 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 2024.