A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 27 December 2004 at 11:30 involving a Suzuki Wagon R+
A Suzuki Wagon R+ and a car were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 11:30 on Monday 27 December 2004. The 27-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Wagon R+ and the 23-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2004
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Wagon R+ and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35573, longitude 0.53821, in the IP28 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
- 200437B021300
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 August 2025.
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 3 August 2025
17 m awayRef 2025371624428
Fatal
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 15 December 1983
30 m awayRef 1983373227900
Serious
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 28 June 2008
61 m awayRef 200837B040150
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 5 September 2018
79 m awayRef 2018370329839
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 2 October 1982
90 m awayRef 1982373174400
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 15 July 1993
112 m awayRef 1993373402960
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200437B021300 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.