B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 10 October 1998 at 17:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 17:25 on Saturday 10 October 1998. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 10 Oct 1998
- Saturday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26682, longitude 0.36571, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B004303
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 6 March 1993
10 m awayRef 1993373401100
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 30 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200037B009970
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 21 September 1988
20 m awayRef 1988373181700
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 5 August 1988
32 m awayRef 1988373149700
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 5 May 1989
51 m awayRef 1989373086800
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 20 October 2001
61 m awayRef 200137B012179
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199837B004303 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.