Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP33 on 13 May 2014 at 14:54 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car, a Ford Fiesta and a Chevrolet Cruze were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 14:54 on Tuesday 13 May 2014. The 45-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2014
- Tuesday, 14:54
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2433, longitude 0.70776, in the IP33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbeygate, West Suffolk, IP33 3XP area accident hotspot. 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
- 201437EA80331
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1302
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 2006.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 8 July 2006
21 m awayRef 200637B025725
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 28 September 2001
49 m awayRef 200137B011962
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 11 January 2013
73 m awayRef 201337EA68897
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 7 November 1985
78 m awayRef 1985373190700
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 9 August 2012
78 m awayRef 2012370316612
Serious
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 14 May 1982
84 m awayRef 1982373079300
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Chevrolet Cruze
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, 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 201437EA80331 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.