A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 27 October 2003 at 05:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 05:45 on Monday 27 October 2003. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2003
- Monday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27762, longitude 0.85908, in the IP31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017900
- 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
- 60 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 March 2002.
Serious
Triumph crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 31 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200237B013444
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 8 December 2003
20 m awayRef 200337B018292
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 7 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200337B015638
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 14 January 2003
50 m awayRef 200337B015694
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 28 October 2003
50 m awayRef 200337B017927
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 23 August 1994
67 m awayRef 1994373305770
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200337B017900 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.