B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 6 December 2002 at 13:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 13:55 on Friday 6 December 2002. The female driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2002
- Friday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37652, longitude 0.6718, in the IP24 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
- 200237B015375
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2006.
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 27 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B024838
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 23 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200237B015540
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 24 June 2013
12 m awayRef 201337EA72338
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 10 November 1996
14 m awayRef 199637B000033
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 12 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200237B015444
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 20 March 2002
45 m awayRef 200237B013361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- 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 200237B015375 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.