A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 25 September 2001 at 19:10 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 19:10 on Tuesday 25 September 2001. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2001
- Tuesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37591, longitude 0.54084, in the IP27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lakenheath, West Suffolk, IP27 9BH area accident hotspot. 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
- 200137B011920
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 17 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370076711
Serious
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 14 March 1989
40 m awayRef 1989373051000
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 7 August 1995
40 m awayRef 1995373403420
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 22 August 1996
61 m awayRef 1996373403620
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 7 July 1990
64 m awayRef 1990373118100
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 25 July 2017
65 m awayRef 2017370211207
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200137B011920 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.