A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 30 November 2007 at 16:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 16:00 on Friday 30 November 2007. The 24-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2007
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25474, longitude 0.42283, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B029520
- 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
- 1304
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 8 January 2009
14 m awayRef 200937B041537
Slight
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 22 September 1999
28 m awayRef 199937B006559
Slight
Bus crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 15 July 1986
36 m awayRef 1986373119600
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 14 July 2019
36 m awayRef 2019370877341
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 9 December 2025
39 m awayRef 2025371680629
Slight
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 23 October 1993
50 m awayRef 1993373404630
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200737B029520 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.