A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 26 September 2015 at 11:16 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 11:16 on Saturday 26 September 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 11:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25574, longitude 0.42417, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA93987
- 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
- 1304
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2019.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 30 May 2019
3 m awayRef 2019370845417
Slight
Kawasaki ZX550 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 10 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B005725
Serious
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 22 July 1988
14 m awayRef 1988373140500
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 27 July 1991
20 m awayRef 1991373415100
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 31 October 2001
28 m awayRef 200137B012223
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 2 March 1995
28 m awayRef 1995373401000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201537EA93987 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.