A14 crash in West Suffolk on 8 January 2003 at 17:25 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A14 in West Suffolk at 17:25 on Wednesday 8 January 2003. The 53-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series and a male passenger in the Rover 200 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2003
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23553, longitude 0.79895, in the IP30 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
- 200337B015643
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 14 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200137B010490
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 10 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200137B012057
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 15 November 2007
14 m awayRef 200737B029350
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 30 September 1993
20 m awayRef 1993373306290
Slight
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 14 March 1995
20 m awayRef 1995373302130
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 13 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983373077600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200337B015643 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 2003.