Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP31 on 30 December 2024 at 12:15 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A car and a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 12:15 on Monday 30 December 2024. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda GLR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2024
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30276, longitude 0.76712, in the IP31 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
- 2024371540305
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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
- 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, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2005.
Slight
ERF crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 24 March 2005
37 m awayRef 200537B021992
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 14 July 1990
38 m awayRef 1990373122700
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 22 June 1981
177 m awayRef 1981373105600
Slight
Triumph Spitfire crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 13 May 1993
220 m awayRef 1993373303570
Serious
Renault 5 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 28 December 1993
220 m awayRef 1993373308860
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 20 November 1998
243 m awayRef 199837B004599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda GLR 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2024371540305 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.