B1084 crash in East Suffolk on 20 August 2008 at 11:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B1084 in East Suffolk at 11:10 on Wednesday 20 August 2008. The 81-year-old male driver 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
- 20 Aug 2008
- Wednesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10475, longitude 1.40434, in the IP12 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200837G025485
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1084
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2015.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 27 December 2015
2 m awayRef 201537EA96612
Serious
Car crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 31 May 1985
20 m awayRef 1985371088600
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 30 December 1996
54 m awayRef 199637G000263
Slight
John Deere crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 14 September 2005
61 m awayRef 200537G018366
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 20 July 1991
76 m awayRef 1991371710800
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B1084 in East Suffolk, 19 June 2003
81 m awayRef 200337G012971
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200837G025485 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2008.