A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 27 September 2020 at 12:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a BMW X1 were involved in a crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 12:45 on Sunday 27 September 2020. The 44-year-old male driver of the BMW X1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2020
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and BMW X1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25341, longitude 0.71453, in the IP32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020370985440
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2021.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 19 October 2021
2 m awayRef 2021371131390
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 23 May 2003
4 m awayRef 200337B016643
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 6 November 1998
4 m awayRef 199837B004509
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 5 June 2001
4 m awayRef 200137B011052
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 29 April 2021
4 m awayRef 2021371042808
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 21 November 1993
4 m awayRef 1993373307780
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X1)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020370985440 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 2020.