A140 crash in Mid Suffolk on 30 November 2002 at 22:29 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A140 in Mid Suffolk at 22:29 on Saturday 30 November 2002. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2002
- Saturday, 22:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36098, longitude 1.14915, in the IP21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Palgrave, Mid Suffolk, IP21 4AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B015357
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Dual 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2011.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 13 August 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370316411
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 25 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199837L001789
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 10 June 2011
14 m awayRef 2011370230311
Slight
Lorry crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 14 April 1981
14 m awayRef 1981372036300
Slight
Car crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 18 October 1981
22 m awayRef 1981372112600
Slight
Lorry crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 13 November 1989
28 m awayRef 1989372128800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 200237B015357 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2002.