B1061 crash in West Suffolk on 27 December 2000 at 21:16 involving a Skoda Favorit
A Skoda Favorit crashed on the B1061 in West Suffolk at 21:16 on Wednesday 27 December 2000. The 36-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 21:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Favorit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14321, longitude 0.44571, in the CB9 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009942
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1061
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 6 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018370351859
Slight
Car crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 9 March 1999
30 m awayRef 199937B005366
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 18 January 1993
63 m awayRef 1993373500300
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 13 April 2016
308 m awayRef 2016370062781
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 7 September 2011
420 m awayRef 2011370364611
Slight
Van crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 17 January 2025
437 m awayRef 2025371543077
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Favorit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Favorit)
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 200037B009942 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.