Serious B1074 crash in East Suffolk on 27 May 2014 at 20:22 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on the B1074 in East Suffolk at 20:22 on Tuesday 27 May 2014. The 20-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 2014
- Tuesday, 20:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51493, longitude 1.66413, in the NR32 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA80669
- 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
- 1074
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 15 September 1982
5 m awayRef 1982372103100
Serious
Car crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 19 May 1985
5 m awayRef 1985372047500
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 10 August 1984
8 m awayRef 1984372085700
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 5 August 2005
17 m awayRef 200537L011786
Slight
Car crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 6 January 1987
17 m awayRef 1987372002300
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1074 in East Suffolk, 28 June 1999
17 m awayRef 199937L003278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
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 201437EA80669 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.