A145 crash in East Suffolk on 22 December 2000 at 17:45
A vehicle crashed on the A145 in East Suffolk at 17:45 on Friday 22 December 2000. A 34-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35484, longitude 1.58822, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037L005178
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 140 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 5 October 1996
140 m awayRef 1996372205260
Slight
Car crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 18 March 1983
140 m awayRef 1983372028800
Slight
Car crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 12 February 1984
140 m awayRef 1984372015200
Slight
Car crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 19 October 1988
141 m awayRef 1988372118700
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 16 November 1995
190 m awayRef 1995372205820
Serious
Car crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 29 November 1989
191 m awayRef 1989372137200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 200037L005178 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.