A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 13 September 2017 at 15:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 15:15 on Wednesday 13 September 2017. The 23-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36829, longitude 0.48731, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beck Row. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017370227282
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2016.
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 12 June 2016
At the same spotRef 2016370083634
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 14 December 2015
20 m awayRef 201537EA96242
Slight
Ford crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 17 May 1998
26 m awayRef 199837B003366
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 3 November 1984
33 m awayRef 1984373197000
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 September 2001
34 m awayRef 200137B011844
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 5 June 1981
42 m awayRef 1981373095500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2017370227282 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 2017.