A143 crash in West Suffolk on 27 December 2002 at 20:07 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the A143 in West Suffolk at 20:07 on Friday 27 December 2002. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2002
- Friday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27131, longitude 0.77702, in the IP31 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B015552
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2021.
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 7 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021371049684
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 2 June 1991
36 m awayRef 1991373306800
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 20 January 2005
54 m awayRef 200537B021515
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 6 December 2005
54 m awayRef 200537B023991
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 8 June 1981
73 m awayRef 1981373096100
Fatal
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 18 September 1982
73 m awayRef 1982373162800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 200237B015552 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.