A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 14 November 1995 at 23:22 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and an ERF lorry were involved in a crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 23:22 on Tuesday 14 November 1995. The 33-year-old male driver of the Volvo lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1995
- Tuesday, 23:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and ERF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11043, longitude 1.10598, in the IP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995371612430
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2023.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 9 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023371316612
Slight
Scania crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 20 October 1995
22 m awayRef 1995371610030
Fatal
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 25 June 1985
40 m awayRef 1985371104100
Slight
Scania crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 5 September 2003
41 m awayRef 200337G013459
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 8 June 2014
57 m awayRef 201437EA80992
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 20 August 2001
58 m awayRef 200137G008990
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: ERF
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 14,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
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 1995371612430 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 1995.