A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 23 October 2002 at 14:40 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A Vauxhall Omega and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 14:40 on Wednesday 23 October 2002. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2002
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Omega and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26392, longitude 0.70781, in the IP32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tollgate, West Suffolk, IP32 6DF area accident hotspot. 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
- 200237B015002
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 15 October 2010.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201037B045990
Slight
Perodua Myvi crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 25 November 2015
1 m awayRef 201537EA95689
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 30 August 2019
3 m awayRef 2019370912954
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 7 January 1988
10 m awayRef 1988373002500
Slight
Minibus crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 27 July 2013
22 m awayRef 201337EA73315
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 7 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199737B001002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200237B015002 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.