A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 3 August 1999 at 10:05 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van and a Ford New Holland agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 10:05 on Tuesday 3 August 1999. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van 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
- 3 Aug 1999
- Tuesday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Ford New Holland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41329, longitude 0.42637, in the IP28 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
- 199937B006307
- 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
- 1101
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 8 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199737B002393
Serious
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 November 1985
20 m awayRef 1985373187200
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 21 December 2011
63 m awayRef 2011370526211
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 14 August 1992
153 m awayRef 1992373434900
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 16 July 2003
279 m awayRef 200337B017063
Slight
John Deere crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 24 October 2005
500 m awayRef 200537B023610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford New Holland
Agricultural vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 199937B006307 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.