A14 crash in West Suffolk on 19 August 2015 at 12:00 involving a MAN lorry
A MAN lorry crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 12:00 on Wednesday 19 August 2015. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.253, longitude 0.72098, in the IP32 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 1JE 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
- 201537EA92967
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2019.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 23 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019370847211
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 20 March 2004
9 m awayRef 200437B019119
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 1 December 2017
11 m awayRef 2017370249545
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 9 March 2002
17 m awayRef 200237B013250
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 12 December 2024
22 m awayRef 2024371529530
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in West Suffolk, 11 September 1980
27 m awayRef 1980373151600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,419 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (MAN)
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 201537EA92967 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.