A142 crash in West Suffolk on 13 July 1998 at 08:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A142 in West Suffolk at 08:05 on Monday 13 July 1998. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1998
- Monday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27008, longitude 0.39124, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B003777
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 28 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B021033
Serious
Isuzu Trucks NQR crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 23 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B016010
Slight
Vauxhall Monterey crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 9 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B015897
Slight
Volvo C 30 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 17 October 2013
3 m awayRef 201337EA75043
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 24 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025371623470
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 24 August 2013
10 m awayRef 201337EA73710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199837B003777 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 1998.