A143 crash in West Suffolk on 18 September 2000 at 09:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A143 in West Suffolk at 09:40 on Monday 18 September 2000. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2000
- Monday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25638, longitude 0.71879, in the IP32 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
- 200037B008620
- 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
- 143
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2005.
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 22 March 2005
14 m awayRef 200537B021986
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 3 July 2002
20 m awayRef 200237B014121
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 20 December 2018
21 m awayRef 2018370355179
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 15 February 2008
22 m awayRef 200837B030176
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 11 August 1992
22 m awayRef 1992373359100
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 18 December 2001
30 m awayRef 200137B012636
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200037B008620 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 2000.