B1063 crash in West Suffolk on 13 October 2005 at 06:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1063 in West Suffolk at 06:15 on Thursday 13 October 2005. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2005
- Thursday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15284, longitude 0.55121, in the CB8 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
- 200537B023536
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1063
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2025.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 11 September 2025
18 m awayRef 2025371642622
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1063 in West Suffolk, 1 June 2017
63 m awayRef 2017370189266
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 22 June 2020
110 m awayRef 2020370960128
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 26 January 1991
120 m awayRef 1991373017900
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 11 May 1995
120 m awayRef 1995373303510
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 22 June 1999
163 m awayRef 199937B005987
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 200537B023536 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.