A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 18 September 2003 at 02:50 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 02:50 on Thursday 18 September 2003. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2003
- Thursday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26228, longitude 0.86469, in the IP31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017571
- 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
- 1088
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 16 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200437B021222
Slight
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 30 August 2025
19 m awayRef 2025371635923
Fatal
Van crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 24 October 1981
32 m awayRef 1981373186400
Slight
HGV crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 1 April 2010
41 m awayRef 201037B044656
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 17 July 2008
45 m awayRef 200837B040271
Slight
Car crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 6 March 2013
48 m awayRef 201337EA69991
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 200337B017571 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.