A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 18 January 2008 at 05:47 involving a Volkswagen Caddy
A Volkswagen Caddy crashed on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 05:47 on Friday 18 January 2008. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2008
- Friday, 05:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42749, longitude 0.58808, 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
- 200837B029924
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 January 2001.
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 15 January 2001
50 m awayRef 200137B009827
Slight
ERF crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 15 January 1997
57 m awayRef 199737B000460
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 12 May 2020
60 m awayRef 2020370951418
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 27 May 1994
108 m awayRef 1994373402440
Slight
Iveco crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 30 July 2008
117 m awayRef 200837B040350
Fatal
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 14 October 1988
125 m awayRef 1988373199400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 200837B029924 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 2008.