B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 24 December 2000 at 12:30 involving a Ford Scorpio
A Ford Scorpio and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 12:30 on Sunday 24 December 2000. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Scorpio and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35185, longitude 0.67339, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009978
- 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
- 1106
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2004.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 14 July 2004
22 m awayRef 200437B019938
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 2 August 1993
45 m awayRef 1993373403250
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 7 April 2010
76 m awayRef 201037B044683
Fatal
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 1 July 1982
98 m awayRef 1982373109700
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 3 May 2010
108 m awayRef 201037B044853
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 13 September 2021
121 m awayRef 2021371087923
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Scorpio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Scorpio)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200037B009978 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.