A14 crash in West Suffolk on 24 October 2001 at 15:58 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 15:58 on Wednesday 24 October 2001. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2001
- Wednesday, 15:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23787, longitude 0.76834, in the IP30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B012157
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2021.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 October 2021
9 m awayRef 2021371129115
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 2 October 1985
28 m awayRef 1985373168300
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 23 March 2002
41 m awayRef 200237B013370
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 27 August 1997
41 m awayRef 199737B001678
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 16 September 2001
54 m awayRef 200137B011823
Slight
MAN crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 24 December 2002
72 m awayRef 200237B015566
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200137B012157 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.