B1083 crash in East Suffolk on 15 January 2014 at 19:15 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk at 19:15 on Wednesday 15 January 2014. The 49-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Discovery was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09559, longitude 1.34975, in the IP12 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA77496
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1083
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 20 February 1986
38 m awayRef 1986371031700
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 19 April 1989
48 m awayRef 1989371058200
Slight
Car crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 30 June 1987
75 m awayRef 1987371095100
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 25 September 1981
75 m awayRef 1981371159200
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 19 June 1991
75 m awayRef 1991371706400
Slight
Car crash on the B1083 in East Suffolk, 23 November 1987
75 m awayRef 1987371186300
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
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 201437EA77496 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2014.