C road crash in West Suffolk IP24 on 14 January 2006 at 07:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 07:30 on Saturday 14 January 2006. The 55-year-old female driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2006
- Saturday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3844, longitude 0.70122, in the IP24 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200637B024277
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1984.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 21 February 1984
20 m awayRef 1984373035900
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 27 June 1985
383 m awayRef 1985373110700
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 10 May 2006
460 m awayRef 200637B025166
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 17 November 1994
585 m awayRef 1994373307670
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 2 March 1980
653 m awayRef 1980373040600
Serious
Audi Coupe crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 13 January 1998
677 m awayRef 199837B002649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200637B024277 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 2006.