A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 10 October 2002 at 08:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 08:35 on Thursday 10 October 2002. A 7-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2002
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4223, longitude 0.58278, 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
- 200237B014865
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 20 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B010354
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 29 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B011737
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 4 April 1987
At the same spotRef 1987373073800
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 31 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B010169
Slight
Opel Ascona crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 19 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199837B003028
Serious
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 9 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199737B002369
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200237B014865 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.