C road crash in West Suffolk IP30 on 15 August 2007 at 02:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 02:10 on Wednesday 15 August 2007. The 28-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20223, longitude 0.74665, in the IP30 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B028617
- 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
- 30 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2013.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 14 September 2013
20 m awayRef 201337EA74267
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 24 June 1980
41 m awayRef 1980373105000
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 1 August 1988
72 m awayRef 1988373148200
Serious
Honda CBR crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 30 May 2025
93 m awayRef 2025371597516
Slight
Daimler Sovereign crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 October 1990
282 m awayRef 1990373175900
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 1 February 2005
344 m awayRef 200537B021596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200737B028617 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.