B1117 crash in East Suffolk on 1 February 2000 at 07:10 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B1117 in East Suffolk at 07:10 on Tuesday 1 February 2000. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2000
- Tuesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31803, longitude 1.47148, in the IP19 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037L004032
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1117
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 slight injury crash on 5 February 2012.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1117 in East Suffolk, 5 February 2012
14 m awayRef 2012370059812
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the B1117 in East Suffolk, 22 May 1993
28 m awayRef 1993372202540
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B1117 in East Suffolk, 1 March 2016
93 m awayRef 2016370052096
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 1 March 2017
113 m awayRef 2017370165770
Slight
Van crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 27 January 1986
120 m awayRef 1986372010200
Slight
Bus crash on the B1117 in East Suffolk, 1 November 2000
198 m awayRef 200037L004949
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,603 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 200037L004032 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2000.