B1106 crash in West Suffolk on 9 May 2015 at 15:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B1106 in West Suffolk at 15:30 on Saturday 9 May 2015. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2015
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.32433, longitude 0.68041, in the IP28 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
- 201537EA90176
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1106
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 14 December 2012
16 m awayRef 2012370526612
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 5 May 2003
36 m awayRef 200337B016479
Serious
Van crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 7 July 1989
54 m awayRef 1989373127100
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 17 November 2006
74 m awayRef 200637B026640
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 13 June 2015
127 m awayRef 201537EA91102
Slight
Toyota crash on the B1106 in West Suffolk, 15 August 2014
131 m awayRef 201437EA84247
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201537EA90176 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 2015.