A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 10 March 2005 at 23:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 23:40 on Thursday 10 March 2005. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2005
- Thursday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23302, longitude 0.88111, in the IP30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elmswell & Woolpit, Mid Suffolk, IP30 9WJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B021910
- Council area
- Mid 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 1997.
Serious
Van crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 5 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B002344
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 12 October 1992
45 m awayRef 1992373373900
Serious
JCB crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 2 June 1993
45 m awayRef 1993373303790
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 4 January 2004
50 m awayRef 200437B020239
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 3 July 2014
51 m awayRef 201437EA82341
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 6 December 2003
51 m awayRef 200337B018276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200537B021910 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2005.