B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 3 December 2002 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 22:00 on Tuesday 3 December 2002. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28739, longitude 0.69986, in the IP28 postcode district. 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
- 200237B015331
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1106
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2004.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 14 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200437B021195
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 4 June 2008
14 m awayRef 200837B030968
Slight
Honda crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 17 May 2003
14 m awayRef 200337B016601
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 27 December 2023
19 m awayRef 2023371392811
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 4 March 1992
20 m awayRef 1992373318400
Slight
BMW crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 4 January 2008
20 m awayRef 200837B029831
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200237B015331 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.