A143 crash in West Suffolk on 17 March 2003 at 16:16 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A bus or coach and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A143 in West Suffolk at 16:16 on Monday 17 March 2003. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2003
- Monday, 16:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29255, longitude 0.82924, 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
- 200337B016191
- 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
- 60 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2018.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 3 April 2018
4 m awayRef 2018370285388
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 5 November 2020
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Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 7 July 2025
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Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 6 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B002414
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 20 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B006458
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 20 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200437B019158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,146 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200337B016191 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.