A145 crash in East Suffolk on 24 December 2000 at 14:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A145 in East Suffolk at 14:50 on Sunday 24 December 2000. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37556, longitude 1.58108, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037L005172
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 145
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2009.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 5 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200937L017600
Serious
Scania crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 17 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200437L010973
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 7 July 2001
22 m awayRef 200137L005847
Serious
Honda crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 25 April 1992
28 m awayRef 1992372222900
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 1 April 1992
40 m awayRef 1992372218400
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 1 October 1991
41 m awayRef 1991372231500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200037L005172 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.