B1127 crash in East Suffolk on 8 February 1997 at 18:40 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the B1127 in East Suffolk at 18:40 on Saturday 8 February 1997. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 1997
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44126, longitude 1.61078, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199737L000355
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1127
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2009.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 12 August 2009
42 m awayRef 200937L017212
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 16 December 2008
58 m awayRef 200837L016426
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 4 February 2014
149 m awayRef 201437EA77954
Slight
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 3 January 2013
164 m awayRef 201337EA68554
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 12 July 2013
212 m awayRef 201337EA72731
Serious
Ford Ecosport crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 8 July 2025
281 m awayRef 2025371616921
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
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 199737L000355 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1997.