A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 27 December 2000 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 15:00 on Wednesday 27 December 2000. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19819, longitude 0.99038, in the IP14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009951
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 25 February 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373029300
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 27 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200237B013641
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 18 November 1995
36 m awayRef 1995373308490
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1308 in Mid Suffolk, 1 August 1987
36 m awayRef 1987373134800
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 23 April 1981
36 m awayRef 1981373065200
Slight
MG MGB crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 5 July 1999
41 m awayRef 199937B006098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200037B009951 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.