Serious B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 26 November 2007 at 07:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 07:00 on Monday 26 November 2007. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2007
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40421, longitude 0.64847, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B029436
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1106
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 322 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2006.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 16 March 2006
322 m awayRef 200637B024841
Slight
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 27 November 1989
372 m awayRef 1989373231500
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 22 May 2003
440 m awayRef 200337B016669
Fatal
Yamaha XC crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 2 November 2023
446 m awayRef 2023371371643
Slight
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 26 June 1998
453 m awayRef 199837B003650
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 9 November 2001
499 m awayRef 200137B012284
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200737B029436 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.