B1061 crash in West Suffolk on 17 December 2002 at 18:00 involving a Honda Civic
A car and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk at 18:00 on Tuesday 17 December 2002. The 51-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1487, longitude 0.44104, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B015474
- 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
- 1061
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 2 January 2004
81 m awayRef 200437B018554
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 27 December 2016
172 m awayRef 2016370141464
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 10 December 1993
175 m awayRef 1993373505690
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 15 September 1990
187 m awayRef 1990373194100
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 8 August 2012
190 m awayRef 2012370309012
Slight
Van crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 17 January 2025
252 m awayRef 2025371543077
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 200237B015474 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.