B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 19 January 2007 at 20:40 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 20:40 on Friday 19 January 2007. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2007
- Friday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42117, longitude 0.63772, 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
- 200737B029494
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 18 December 1985
76 m awayRef 1985373222200
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 1 July 1991
89 m awayRef 1991373410600
Slight
Car crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 17 November 2008
112 m awayRef 200837B041125
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 6 March 2014
129 m awayRef 201437EA79182
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 31 January 1990
139 m awayRef 1990373019100
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 23 July 1996
143 m awayRef 1996373403060
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 200737B029494 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.