B1122 crash in East Suffolk on 31 October 2003 at 06:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B1122 in East Suffolk at 06:05 on Friday 31 October 2003. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2003
- Friday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23058, longitude 1.57466, in the IP16 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337L009249
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1122
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2002.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 13 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200237L007370
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 26 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200537L011118
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 31 October 2003
14 m awayRef 200337L009250
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 9 January 1991
28 m awayRef 1991372002200
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 1 July 2001
58 m awayRef 200137L005863
Serious
Car crash on the B1122 in East Suffolk, 24 February 2006
63 m awayRef 200637L012623
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200337L009249 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.