A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 21 December 2011 at 08:45 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 08:45 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The 52-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41384, longitude 0.42611, 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
- 2011370526211
- 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
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 November 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 November 1985
45 m awayRef 1985373187200
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 8 December 1997
51 m awayRef 199737B002393
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 3 August 1999
63 m awayRef 199937B006307
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 14 August 1992
216 m awayRef 1992373434900
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 16 July 2003
216 m awayRef 200337B017063
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 October 2010
475 m awayRef 201037B045981
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 2011370526211 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.