A14 crash in West Suffolk on 31 May 2004 at 11:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 11:30 on Monday 31 May 2004. The 62-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2004
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23637, longitude 0.80897, in the IP30 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200437B019614
- Council area
- West 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2019.
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 November 2019
46 m awayRef 2019370924367
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 5 October 2005
92 m awayRef 200537B023461
Fatal
Scania crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 November 1999
102 m awayRef 199937B006930
Slight
Volvo crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 23 March 2010
108 m awayRef 201037B044357
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 4 June 2025
114 m awayRef 2025371616680
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 14 September 1980
126 m awayRef 1980373150700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 200437B019614 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 2004.