A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 13 June 2003 at 22:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 22:10 on Friday 13 June 2003. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2003
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22707, longitude 0.90006, in the IP30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B016843
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 2015.
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 15 June 2015
12 m awayRef 201537EA91223
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 29 March 2017
12 m awayRef 2017370171713
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 9 July 2018
13 m awayRef 2018370315627
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 30 December 1996
28 m awayRef 199637B000351
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 20 November 1998
57 m awayRef 199837B004595
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 28 October 2003
64 m awayRef 200337B017924
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200337B016843 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2003.