A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 10 December 1998 at 20:10 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 20:10 on Thursday 10 December 1998. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38803, longitude 0.5434, in the IP27 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B004788
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1065
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 May 1991.
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 23 May 1991
10 m awayRef 1991373403600
Serious
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 28 April 1984
10 m awayRef 1984373071400
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 17 July 2001
14 m awayRef 200137B011339
Fatal
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 31 October 1984
14 m awayRef 1984373194500
Slight
Skoda 130 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 17 October 1992
20 m awayRef 1992373445000
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 5 October 1998
22 m awayRef 199837B004282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 199837B004788 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.