Serious C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP22 on 24 March 2000 at 23:55 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 23:55 on Friday 24 March 2000. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Mar 2000
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36334, longitude 1.1076, in the IP22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B007916
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 1989.
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Slight
Vehicle crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 10 October 1995
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
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 200037B007916 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2000.