A14 crash in West Suffolk on 16 November 2005 at 09:05 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A car and a Daewoo Matiz were involved in a crash on the A14 in West Suffolk at 09:05 on Wednesday 16 November 2005. The 21-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26841, longitude 0.39192, in the CB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket North, West Suffolk, CB8 7AZ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B023769
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 142
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2005.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 9 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200537B022585
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 19 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199737B001108
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 9 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199837B004305
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 16 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B020650
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 27 January 1992
10 m awayRef 1992373404600
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 16 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B006716
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 200537B023769 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.