B1066 crash in West Suffolk on 23 March 2006 at 08:40 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the B1066 in West Suffolk at 08:40 on Thursday 23 March 2006. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2006
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16885, longitude 0.67293, in the IP29 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200637B024798
- 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
- 1066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 12 January 1986
10 m awayRef 1986373006700
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 30 April 2014
74 m awayRef 201437EA79754
Serious
Car crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 20 April 1986
91 m awayRef 1986373064900
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 22 March 1984
163 m awayRef 1984373050600
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 3 February 1990
454 m awayRef 1990373022100
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B1066 in West Suffolk, 31 August 1990
454 m awayRef 1990373151400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 200637B024798 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.