C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP22 on 1 December 2005 at 17:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 17:30 on Thursday 1 December 2005. The 55-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36287, longitude 1.10507, in the IP22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B023930
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 29 April 2008.
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Ford Mondeo crash on the A143 in Babergh, 29 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200837B030726
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 4 July 1991
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Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 2005
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 9 June 2003
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Serious
Car crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 5 October 1981
10 m awayRef 1981372106600
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on the A143 in Mid Suffolk, 5 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199737L000719
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 200537B023930 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2005.