Serious A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 15 September 2001 at 17:13 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 17:13 on Saturday 15 September 2001. An 11-year-old female passenger, the 39-year-old female driver and an 11-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 2001
- Saturday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21801, longitude 0.91352, in the IP30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B011825
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 9 July 2003
81 m awayRef 200337B017025
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 1 December 2017
119 m awayRef 2017370249565
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 12 September 1982
126 m awayRef 1982373158500
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 15 June 2013
129 m awayRef 201337EA72257
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 20 June 1989
134 m awayRef 1989373115500
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 5 February 2003
142 m awayRef 200337B015871
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200137B011825 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2001.