B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 5 December 2002 at 06:20 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Volvo 440 were involved in a crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 06:20 on Thursday 5 December 2002. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Volvo 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44365, longitude 0.62567, in the IP27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brandon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brandon Central, West Suffolk, IP27 0BU area accident hotspot. 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
- 200237B015349
- 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
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2015.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 25 September 2015
8 m awayRef 201537EA94131
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 26 November 2008
10 m awayRef 200837B041177
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 12 April 2004
14 m awayRef 200437B019245
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 27 February 2022
49 m awayRef 2022371154903
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 8 September 2013
75 m awayRef 201337EA74072
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 11 December 2017
94 m awayRef 2017370252496
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford)
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 200237B015349 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.