Serious A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 17 July 2008 at 03:12 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis crashed on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 03:12 on Thursday 17 July 2008. A 28-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 58-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 03:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26193, longitude 0.86437, in the IP31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200837B040271
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1088
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2010.
Slight
HGV crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 1 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201037B044656
Slight
Car crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 6 March 2013
14 m awayRef 201337EA69991
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 8 July 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373119900
Serious
Car crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 31 May 1986
14 m awayRef 1986373091300
Slight
Car crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 24 February 1983
22 m awayRef 1983373030700
Slight
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 30 August 2025
25 m awayRef 2025371635923
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200837B040271 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2008.