A134 crash in West Suffolk on 18 February 2014 at 11:50 involving a Proton Savvy
A Proton Savvy and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 11:50 on Tuesday 18 February 2014. The 31-year-old female driver of the Proton Savvy and the 50-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2014
- Tuesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Proton Savvy and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17076, longitude 0.7644, in the IP30 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
- 201437EA78361
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2024.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 29 November 2024
3 m awayRef 2024371551101
Serious
Volvo XC70 crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 8 December 2009
7 m awayRef 200937B043846
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 30 January 2006
9 m awayRef 200637B024417
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 16 May 2003
9 m awayRef 200337B016622
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 14 September 2007
9 m awayRef 200737B028844
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 9 June 2004
9 m awayRef 200437B019675
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Proton Savvy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Savvy)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201437EA78361 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 2014.