Serious unclassified road crash in Babergh IP7 on 24 October 2025 at 11:15 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 11:15 on Friday 24 October 2025. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 24 Oct 2025
- Friday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Sportage and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08882, longitude 0.99813, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025371658674
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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, 107 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 14 December 1980
107 m awayRef 1980373224500
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 20 October 1987
109 m awayRef 1987373188800
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 7 March 2022
140 m awayRef 2022371160066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 31 July 1981
397 m awayRef 1981373133900
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 16 December 1988
675 m awayRef 1988373248500
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 29 March 1988
696 m awayRef 1988373062500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2025371658674 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 2025.