A14 crash in West Suffolk on 30 August 2007 at 11:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 11:00 on Thursday 30 August 2007. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2371, longitude 0.81619, 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
- 200737B028773
- Council area
- West 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2015.
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 5 March 2015
47 m awayRef 201537EA88527
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 22 June 2025
101 m awayRef 2025371616364
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 27 April 1980
114 m awayRef 1980373071100
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 7 August 2008
140 m awayRef 200837B040393
Slight
ERF crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 19 November 1996
155 m awayRef 199637B000086
Fatal
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 6 July 2019
198 m awayRef 2019370855519
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200737B028773 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.