B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 31 December 2005 at 07:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 07:40 on Saturday 31 December 2005. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1169, longitude 0.9861, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200537B024184
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 June 2009.
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 2 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200937B042464
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 1 August 1991
110 m awayRef 1991373325300
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 6 August 2025
141 m awayRef 2025371658500
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 6 May 2013
164 m awayRef 201337EA71300
Serious
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 12 April 1985
268 m awayRef 1985373065000
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 21 April 1980
272 m awayRef 1980373067200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200537B024184 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.