C road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 19 August 2009 at 11:40 involving a Toyota Estima
A Toyota Estima, an LDV 200 Series van and a Mitsubishi were involved in a crash on a C road in West Suffolk at 11:40 on Wednesday 19 August 2009. The 31-year-old female driver of the Toyota Estima, a 45-year-old female passenger in the LDV 200 Series van and the 42-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2009
- Wednesday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Estima and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37017, longitude 0.5148, 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
- 200937B043000
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2006.
Slight
Daewoo Leganza crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 12 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B025075
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 21 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B023825
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 20 November 1986
14 m awayRef 1986373202600
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 4 September 2010
20 m awayRef 201037B045655
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 3 October 1988
40 m awayRef 1988373196800
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 20 September 2004
41 m awayRef 200437B020438
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Estima
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,180 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: LDV 200 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Estima)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (LDV 200 Series)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mitsubishi)
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 200937B043000 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.