A142 crash in West Suffolk on 8 December 2011 at 17:50 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on the A142 in West Suffolk at 17:50 on Thursday 8 December 2011. The 46-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25558, longitude 0.40368, in the CB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket North, West Suffolk, CB8 0DZ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2011370517011
- 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
- 142
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1998.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 19 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199837B004351
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 15 June 2013
4 m awayRef 201337EA72159
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 4 July 2014
8 m awayRef 201437EA81801
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 19 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B000644
Slight
Harley-Davidson FXST crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 29 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200837B040537
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 18 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B007023
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2011370517011 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.