A1120 crash in East Suffolk on 7 February 2003 at 17:40 involving a Vauxhall Brava
A Vauxhall Brava and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk at 17:40 on Friday 7 February 2003. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Brava was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2003
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Brava and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22102, longitude 1.26224, in the IP13 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337L008181
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk, 25 June 2010
14 m awayRef 201037L018196
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk, 3 July 2014
88 m awayRef 201437EA81716
Slight
Car crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk, 26 May 1981
113 m awayRef 1981372052100
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk, 24 July 2014
128 m awayRef 201437EA82205
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 31 July 2021
180 m awayRef 2021371074351
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A1120 in East Suffolk, 4 July 2017
209 m awayRef 2017370203341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Brava)
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 200337L008181 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2003.