A143 crash in West Suffolk on 23 October 2011 at 09:55 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A143 in West Suffolk at 09:55 on Sunday 23 October 2011. The 18-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
- 23 Oct 2011
- Sunday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10974, longitude 0.4896, in the CB9 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
- 2011370427111
- 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
- 143
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 10 September 1998
14 m awayRef 199837B004105
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 7 June 2010
54 m awayRef 201037B045075
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 24 April 1998
78 m awayRef 199837B003236
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 12 December 2015
127 m awayRef 201537EA96185
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 5 September 2009
148 m awayRef 200937B043098
Serious
Minibus crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 11 May 1986
272 m awayRef 1986373080700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2011370427111 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 2011.