C road crash in West Suffolk IP27 on 12 May 2012 at 01:20 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 01:20 on Saturday 12 May 2012. The 18-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2012
- Saturday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42595, longitude 0.55931, in the IP27 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
- 2012370192912
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 November 1985
14 m awayRef 1985373206300
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 4 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199737B001372
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 19 November 2000
30 m awayRef 200037B009580
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 17 May 2001
61 m awayRef 200137B010922
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 13 January 2001
61 m awayRef 200137B010076
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 28 January 1988
92 m awayRef 1988373018200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012370192912 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 2012.