A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 21 January 2001 at 17:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 17:10 on Sunday 21 January 2001. The 24-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2001
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.395, longitude 0.55208, in the IP27 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B009864
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1065
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 11 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200537B023747
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 2 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200037B009675
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 7 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200037B009744
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 11 February 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B005202
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 18 February 2017
13 m awayRef 2017370163821
Serious
Leyland Cars Princess crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 11 January 1991
14 m awayRef 1991373007500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 200137B009864 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 2001.