Serious B1117 crash in Mid Suffolk on 5 July 2020 at 14:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk at 14:05 on Sunday 5 July 2020. The 49-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2020
- Sunday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31275, longitude 1.30797, in the IP21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020370963973
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1117
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 16 November 2007
23 m awayRef 200737B029386
Serious
Ford Scorpio crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 5 July 2003
54 m awayRef 200337L008752
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 1 August 1982
58 m awayRef 1982372081500
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 5 March 2008
188 m awayRef 200837L015364
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 4 September 2007
410 m awayRef 200737L014682
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1117 in Mid Suffolk, 21 October 2005
747 m awayRef 200537L012071
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020370963973 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 2020.