A14 crash in West Suffolk on 27 October 2012 at 06:57 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 06:57 on Saturday 27 October 2012. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 06:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25585, longitude 0.7145, in the IP32 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbeygate, West Suffolk, IP33 1JE area accident hotspot. 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
- 2012370439712
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 April 2000.
Serious
HGV crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 17 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200037B008061
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 17 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B024301
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 26 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200437B020222
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 21 November 1999
30 m awayRef 199937B007041
Fatal
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 March 2025
30 m awayRef 2025371564786
Slight
Volvo crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 13 March 1991
32 m awayRef 1991373044900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2012370439712 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.