A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 7 August 2013 at 11:35 involving an MG MGB
A car and an MG MGB were involved in a crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 11:35 on Wednesday 7 August 2013. The 63-year-old male driver of the MG MGB was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2013
- Wednesday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and MG MGB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23243, longitude 0.89585, in the IP30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elmswell & Woolpit, Mid Suffolk, IP30 9WJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201337EA73407
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1088
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- C
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 March 2017.
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 4 March 2017
8 m awayRef 2017370160341
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 18 September 2015
9 m awayRef 201537EA93828
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 2019
13 m awayRef 2019370901904
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 7 March 1983
15 m awayRef 1983373037600
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 31 October 2010
17 m awayRef 201037B046112
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 21 October 2009
22 m awayRef 200937B043410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: MG MGB
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (MG MGB)
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 201337EA73407 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2013.