B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 26 February 2007 at 18:45 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 18:45 on Monday 26 February 2007. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2007
- Monday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 7 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31256, longitude 0.681, 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
- 200737B027472
- 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
- 1106
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2007.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 65CF crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 23 April 2007
20 m awayRef 200737B027849
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 15 August 2013
23 m awayRef 201337EA73654
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 10 June 2008
80 m awayRef 200837B040015
Serious
Volvo 940 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 22 March 1996
90 m awayRef 1996373302090
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 21 June 1986
140 m awayRef 1986373107700
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 4 December 2019
321 m awayRef 2019370928672
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 7 Series)
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 200737B027472 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 2007.