C road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 12 August 2008 at 16:20 involving a Daihatsu Fourtrak
A car and a Daihatsu Fourtrak were involved in a crash on a C road in West Suffolk at 16:20 on Tuesday 12 August 2008. The 21-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2008
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Daihatsu Fourtrak
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28973, longitude 0.55042, in the IP28 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
- 200837B040427
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 1993.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 December 1993
At the same spotRef 1993373405480
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 8 April 2002
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Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 May 1994
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 26 March 2010
120 m awayRef 201037B044648
Slight
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Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 October 2002
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Daihatsu Fourtrak
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,765 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200837B040427 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.