A143 crash in West Suffolk on 22 June 2013 at 16:45 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A143 in West Suffolk at 16:45 on Saturday 22 June 2013. The 17-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2013
- Saturday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25431, longitude 0.71775, 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
- 201337EA72541
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 14
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2019.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 9 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019370930551
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 25 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025371582087
Serious
Lorry crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 5 September 1983
7 m awayRef 1983373152200
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 16 March 2015
7 m awayRef 201537EA89634
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 26 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025371674261
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 26 June 2001
9 m awayRef 200137B011223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,771 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201337EA72541 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 2013.