A1065 crash in West Suffolk on 19 June 2014 at 07:00 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk at 07:00 on Thursday 19 June 2014. The 25-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2014
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42393, longitude 0.5841, in the IP27 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA81298
- 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
- 1065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1992.
Slight
Colt Mitsubishi crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 1 November 1992
6 m awayRef 1992373400070
Slight
Van crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 7 December 1984
6 m awayRef 1984373228700
Slight
Opel Monza crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 25 November 1994
6 m awayRef 1994373405520
Slight
Car crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 31 October 1988
6 m awayRef 1988373212700
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 11 September 1996
6 m awayRef 1996373403840
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A1065 in West Suffolk, 25 June 1993
6 m awayRef 1993373402690
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201437EA81298 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.