A134 crash in West Suffolk on 16 December 2013 at 06:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 06:15 on Monday 16 December 2013. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2013
- Monday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34419, longitude 0.73664, in the IP24 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
- 201337EA76733
- 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
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 9 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B026852
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 11 October 1988
13 m awayRef 1988373197200
Slight
Fendt crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 10 May 2017
14 m awayRef 2017370186646
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 1 June 1984
22 m awayRef 1984373092500
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 19 June 2009
41 m awayRef 200937B042610
Serious
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 9 September 1987
81 m awayRef 1987373161000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, 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 201337EA76733 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.