A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 20 December 2004 at 10:37 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 10:37 on Monday 20 December 2004. The 28-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2004
- Monday, 10:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40225, longitude 0.57852, in the IP27 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200437B021290
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1065
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 2025.
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 13 September 2025
2 m awayRef 2025371641318
Serious
Van crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 5 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983373172600
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 20 November 1983
22 m awayRef 1983373207000
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 19 March 1986
22 m awayRef 1986373046900
Serious
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 24 October 1981
22 m awayRef 1981373186300
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 6 October 1996
41 m awayRef 1996373404270
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 28, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200437B021290 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.