A11 crash in West Suffolk on 9 December 2020 at 15:00 involving an Iveco Daily van
An Iveco Daily van crashed on the A11 in West Suffolk at 15:00 on Wednesday 9 December 2020. The male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2020
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Iveco Daily
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.378, longitude 0.65331, in the IP24 postcode district. 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
- 2020371014270
- 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
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2015.
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 26 April 2018
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Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 14 May 2020
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 28 October 2014
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Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 12 July 2014
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Iveco Daily)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Iveco Daily)
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 2020371014270 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.