A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 21 November 2007 at 06:52 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 06:52 on Wednesday 21 November 2007. The 29-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2007
- Wednesday, 06:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42406, longitude 0.58421, in the IP27 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
- 200737B029412
- 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
- 1065
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2014.
Slight
Ford crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 19 June 2014
17 m awayRef 201437EA81298
Slight
Opel Monza crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 25 November 1994
22 m awayRef 1994373405520
Slight
Van crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 7 December 1984
22 m awayRef 1984373228700
Slight
Colt Mitsubishi crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 1 November 1992
22 m awayRef 1992373400070
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 25 June 1993
22 m awayRef 1993373402690
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 31 October 1988
22 m awayRef 1988373212700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,410 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200737B029412 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.