A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 18 December 2002 at 19:45 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 19:45 on Wednesday 18 December 2002. A 52-year-old female passenger in the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44162, longitude 0.61202, in the IP27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brandon. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B015528
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1065
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 14 April 1992
At the same spotRef 1992373417500
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 31 March 1987
10 m awayRef 1987373050000
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 2 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B025808
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 27 January 1987
10 m awayRef 1987373011900
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 27 February 1994
10 m awayRef 1994373400880
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 11 June 2002
14 m awayRef 200237B013962
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 200237B015528 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.