B1113 crash in Mid Suffolk on 6 December 2009 at 16:05 involving a Volvo 440
A Volvo 440 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk at 16:05 on Sunday 6 December 2009. A 49-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 65-year-old male driver of the Volvo 440 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2009
- Sunday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo 440 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3674, longitude 0.99563, in the IP22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937B043772
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1113
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 22 March 1983.
Fatal
Car crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 22 March 1983
10 m awayRef 1983373047300
Serious
BMW K 75 S crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 1 July 1992
10 m awayRef 1992373347900
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 19 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200737B029772
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 23 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025371645743
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 6 April 2017
14 m awayRef 2017370171468
Slight
Honda crash on the B1113 in Mid Suffolk, 25 September 1992
14 m awayRef 1992373369500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 440)
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 200937B043772 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2009.