B1063 crash in West Suffolk on 10 November 2005 at 18:25 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the B1063 in West Suffolk at 18:25 on Thursday 10 November 2005. The 45-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 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20681, longitude 0.51302, 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
- 200537B023734
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 96 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2015.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 13 July 2015
96 m awayRef 201537EA92011
Slight
Car crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 1 December 1985
150 m awayRef 1985373210400
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 17 July 1984
184 m awayRef 1984373124500
Slight
Car crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 6 June 1984
184 m awayRef 1984373096400
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 16 January 1991
188 m awayRef 1991373011800
Slight
Car crash on the B1063 in West Suffolk, 26 August 1985
192 m awayRef 1985373144800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 200537B023734 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.