B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 14 October 2006 at 22:20 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara crashed on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 22:20 on Saturday 14 October 2006. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2006
- Saturday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23986, longitude 0.40737, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket East, West Suffolk, CB8 8EG area accident hotspot. 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
- 200637B026368
- 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
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2011.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 13 May 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370190711
Slight
Minibus crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 21 March 1985
28 m awayRef 1985373048900
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 18 November 1980
50 m awayRef 1980373201300
Slight
Car crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 15 October 1983
57 m awayRef 1983373181600
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 11 May 2007
64 m awayRef 200737B027955
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 19 December 1998
64 m awayRef 199837B004889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 200637B026368 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.