A134 crash in West Suffolk on 23 September 2005 at 06:52 involving a Rover 200 Series
A car and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 06:52 on Friday 23 September 2005. The 40-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2005
- Friday, 06:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22066, longitude 0.7393, 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
- 200537B023365
- 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
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 11 June 2013
2 m awayRef 201337EA72334
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 18 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200737B027839
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 31 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B000811
Serious
Kawasaki KMX125 crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 15 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200037B007869
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 7 May 1995
10 m awayRef 1995373303170
Slight
Leyland crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 30 April 1996
10 m awayRef 1996373302980
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200537B023365 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.