A134 crash in West Suffolk on 19 June 2009 at 08:10 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 08:10 on Friday 19 June 2009. The 34-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane 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
- 19 Jun 2009
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Brava and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34384, longitude 0.73648, in the IP24 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937B042610
- 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
- 134
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 11 October 1988
30 m awayRef 1988373197200
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 16 December 2013
41 m awayRef 201337EA76733
Slight
Fendt crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 10 May 2017
48 m awayRef 2017370186646
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 9 December 2006
51 m awayRef 200637B026852
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 1 June 1984
60 m awayRef 1984373092500
Serious
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 9 September 1987
122 m awayRef 1987373161000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,747 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 200937B042610 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 2009.