Unclassified road crash in Mid Suffolk IP14 on 3 December 2016 at 20:50 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk at 20:50 on Saturday 3 December 2016. The 48-year-old male driver and a 50-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22034, longitude 0.9785, in the IP14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370143361
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 137 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 November 2001.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 10 November 2001
137 m awayRef 200137B012282
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 1992
155 m awayRef 1992373301810
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 1985
203 m awayRef 1985373206600
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 2 May 1985
295 m awayRef 1985373075800
Serious
Geely XY 125 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 6 November 2010
383 m awayRef 201037B046120
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 7 June 1998
397 m awayRef 199837B003725
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016370143361 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2016.