C road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 18 December 2006 at 11:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 11:15 on Monday 18 December 2006. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2006
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31859, longitude 0.49191, in the IP28 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
- 200637B026937
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 146 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 April 1981.
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 27 April 1981
146 m awayRef 1981373070000
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 4 June 2013
146 m awayRef 201337EA72542
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 3 November 2025
154 m awayRef 2025371662941
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 28 December 1997
235 m awayRef 199737B002518
Serious
Kawasaki crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 8 June 2002
320 m awayRef 200237B013976
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 14 September 1995
383 m awayRef 1995373404000
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200637B026937 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.