A134 crash in West Suffolk on 16 December 2011 at 07:58 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a JCB agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 07:58 on Friday 16 December 2011. The 44-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2011
- Friday, 07:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and JCB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19445, longitude 0.76022, in the IP30 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
- 2011370520911
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 2015.
Serious
Porsche 911 crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 24 July 2015
22 m awayRef 201537EA92267
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 22 October 2003
45 m awayRef 200337B017890
Serious
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 13 November 1983
51 m awayRef 1983373202300
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 19 December 2012
82 m awayRef 2012370544112
Serious
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 26 August 2014
109 m awayRef 201437EA83279
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 14 January 2017
116 m awayRef 2017370150622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: JCB
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2011370520911 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.