A140 crash in Mid Suffolk on 4 April 2006 at 17:30 involving a Lexus IS200
A Lexus IS200 and a car were involved in a crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk at 17:30 on Tuesday 4 April 2006. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2006
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus IS200 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33517, longitude 1.12192, in the IP23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200637B024915
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 February 2020.
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 27 February 2020
26 m awayRef 2020370935859
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 21 August 2020
32 m awayRef 2020370975274
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 29 June 2022
44 m awayRef 2022371195651
Serious
BYD Seal Design EV crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 23 December 2025
57 m awayRef 2025371689349
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 28 July 1991
134 m awayRef 1991372216400
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk, 28 March 2025
141 m awayRef 2025371572465
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200637B024915 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 2006.