A14 crash in West Suffolk on 21 February 1999 at 15:50 involving a Nissan Prairie
A Nissan Prairie crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 15:50 on Sunday 21 February 1999. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1999
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Prairie
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23261, longitude 0.87918, in the IP30 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199937B005269
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2015.
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Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 4 January 2004
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Serious
JCB crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 2 June 1993
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 24 December 2015
95 m awayRef 201537EA96508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Prairie
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,809 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Prairie)
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 199937B005269 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.