C road crash in West Suffolk IP24 on 25 August 2007 at 10:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in West Suffolk at 10:15 on Saturday 25 August 2007. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2007
- Saturday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37576, longitude 0.78284, in the IP24 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B028716
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1088
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 10 December 2018
15 m awayRef 2018370813272
Slight
Scania crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 12 February 2007
58 m awayRef 200737B027404
Serious
Car crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 13 July 2001
63 m awayRef 200137B011325
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 21 April 2005
64 m awayRef 200537B022185
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 14 October 2009
64 m awayRef 200937B043355
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 25 March 2024
66 m awayRef 2024371425604
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200737B028716 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.