Serious A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 15 November 2000 at 07:00 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 07:00 on Wednesday 15 November 2000. The 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 309 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2000
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39559, longitude 0.44333, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009570
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2025.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 January 2025
22 m awayRef 2025371541878
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 10 June 2000
36 m awayRef 200037B008435
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 November 2015
64 m awayRef 201537EA95137
Serious
Vauxhall crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 November 2015
68 m awayRef 201537EA94903
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 July 1983
92 m awayRef 1983373116500
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 26 April 1987
304 m awayRef 1987373065700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 200037B009570 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.