B1061 crash in West Suffolk on 8 August 2012 at 16:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk at 16:20 on Wednesday 8 August 2012. A 37-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and a 32-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15034, longitude 0.44026, in the CB8 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
- 2012370309012
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1990.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 15 September 1990
10 m awayRef 1990373194100
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 27 December 2016
21 m awayRef 2016370141464
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 10 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993373505690
Slight
Car crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 7 June 1989
172 m awayRef 1989373106900
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 10 September 1993
178 m awayRef 1993373504260
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1061 in West Suffolk, 24 December 2015
181 m awayRef 201537EA96593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2012370309012 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.