B1074 crash in East Suffolk on 23 May 2008 at 19:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1074 in East Suffolk at 19:15 on Friday 23 May 2008. The 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were 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
- 23 May 2008
- Friday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52259, longitude 1.64686, in the NR32 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200837L015644
- 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
- 1074
- 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, 72 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 2001.
Serious
Honda crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 19 June 2001
72 m awayRef 200137L005783
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 27 April 2025
99 m awayRef 2025371598510
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 14 July 2007
143 m awayRef 200737L014503
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 1 January 2012
172 m awayRef 2012370000812
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 25 December 1996
221 m awayRef 199637L000194
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 12 September 2009
230 m awayRef 200937L017306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200837L015644 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.