A143 crash in West Suffolk on 13 July 2005 at 08:40 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on the A143 in West Suffolk at 08:40 on Wednesday 13 July 2005. The 60-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2005
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07899, longitude 0.44629, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haverhill Central, West Suffolk, CB9 0BU area accident hotspot. 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
- 200537B022879
- 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
- 143
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2011.
Slight
Mercedes CLS Class crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 11 October 2011
At the same spotRef 2011370411511
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 27 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990373037600
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 9 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200037B008223
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 6 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B018006
Slight
MAN/VW crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 23 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992373501220
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 9 April 2024
8 m awayRef 2024371429789
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, 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 200537B022879 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 2005.