A14 crash in West Suffolk on 17 May 2019 at 21:15 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the A14 in West Suffolk at 21:15 on Friday 17 May 2019. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2019
- Friday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25579, longitude 0.71402, in the IP32 postcode district. 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019370843286
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 March 2025.
Fatal
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 13 March 2025
22 m awayRef 2025371564786
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 17 January 2006
32 m awayRef 200637B024301
Serious
HGV crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 17 April 2000
35 m awayRef 200037B008061
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 21 November 1999
35 m awayRef 199937B007041
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 27 October 2012
35 m awayRef 2012370439712
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A14 in West Suffolk, 17 November 2000
41 m awayRef 200037B009552
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019370843286 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 2019.