B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 21 December 2013 at 10:00 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 10:00 on Saturday 21 December 2013. The 47-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1455, longitude 1.05253, in the IP6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Needham Market.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201337EA76840
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 17 August 2001
13 m awayRef 200137B011758
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 4 December 2012
32 m awayRef 2012370509812
Slight
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 9 June 1986
63 m awayRef 1986373100700
Serious
Honda NS125R crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 23 January 2001
73 m awayRef 200137B010102
Serious
Hyundai Tucson crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 17 February 2023
85 m awayRef 2023371279106
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 7 January 2004
95 m awayRef 200437B018588
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
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 201337EA76840 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.