A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 22 March 2007 at 03:00 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 03:00 on Thursday 22 March 2007. The 65-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2007
- Thursday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23266, longitude 0.88841, in the IP30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elmswell & Woolpit, Mid Suffolk, IP30 9WJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B027659
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1999.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B007027
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 9 May 2009
14 m awayRef 200937B042325
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 12 December 2002
40 m awayRef 200237B015464
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 27 June 1983
45 m awayRef 1983373105700
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 23 November 2025
67 m awayRef 2025371673136
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 14 May 1986
82 m awayRef 1986373082200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- 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
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
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 200737B027659 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 2007.