A1088 crash in West Suffolk on 16 April 2002 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A1088 in West Suffolk at 21:00 on Tuesday 16 April 2002. The 28-year-old male driver 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
- 16 Apr 2002
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36669, longitude 0.78579, in the IP24 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B013556
- 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
- 1088
- 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, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 September 1990.
Serious
Car crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 6 September 1990
51 m awayRef 1990373155900
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 21 November 2012
81 m awayRef 2012370530712
Slight
John Deere 6000 Series crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 5 November 2021
162 m awayRef 2021371136721
Slight
Car crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 16 July 1997
182 m awayRef 199737B001481
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 20 March 2007
214 m awayRef 200737B027630
Slight
Van crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 15 December 1998
214 m awayRef 199837B004795
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200237B013556 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 2002.