A1307 crash in West Suffolk on 6 February 1999 at 16:15 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 and a Peugeot 405 taxi were involved in a crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk at 16:15 on Saturday 6 February 1999. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 1999
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 21 and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08588, longitude 0.43484, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199937B005173
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1307
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk, 10 February 2018
2 m awayRef 2018370272756
Slight
Taxi crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk, 14 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023371352557
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk, 29 November 2021
9 m awayRef 2021371144394
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk, 13 September 2022
9 m awayRef 2022371219107
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 30 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200337B016471
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 3 February 1989
10 m awayRef 1989373023400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199937B005173 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 1999.