Serious B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 14 December 2005 at 06:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 06:35 on Wednesday 14 December 2005. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42756, longitude 0.63369, in the IP27 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B024074
- 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
- 1106
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 30 June 2007.
Fatal
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 30 June 2007
41 m awayRef 200737B028266
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 8 June 1998
54 m awayRef 199837B003509
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 24 August 2005
108 m awayRef 200537B023153
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 10 April 2014
152 m awayRef 201437EA79565
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 19 February 2008
215 m awayRef 200837B030209
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 18 October 2025
216 m awayRef 2025371655993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 200537B024074 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.