C road crash in West Suffolk IP31 on 12 June 1997 at 08:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in West Suffolk at 08:00 on Thursday 12 June 1997. The 45-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 1997
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29483, longitude 0.83682, in the IP31 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199737B001204
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 January 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 18 January 1981
51 m awayRef 1981373009900
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 25 November 1992
51 m awayRef 1992373300870
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 7 January 1990
82 m awayRef 1990373001900
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 17 July 2006
91 m awayRef 200637B025689
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 29 May 2005
95 m awayRef 200537B022706
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 23 July 1989
98 m awayRef 1989373136600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199737B001204 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 1997.