Unclassified road crash in Mid Suffolk IP6 on 22 November 2016 at 17:50 involving an MG ZS
An MG ZS and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk at 17:50 on Tuesday 22 November 2016. The 40-year-old male driver of the MG ZS was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZS and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13647, longitude 1.17533, in the IP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370144572
- 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
- Dry
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 21 January 2006
5 m awayRef 200637G019326
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 23 November 1998
5 m awayRef 199837G003538
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 27 April 2002
5 m awayRef 200237G010465
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 19 May 2009
5 m awayRef 200937B042379
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 9 July 2011
7 m awayRef 2011370274611
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 23 June 1998
8 m awayRef 199837G002745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZS)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2016370144572 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.