Serious A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 25 September 1985 at 18:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 18:50 on Wednesday 25 September 1985. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Sep 1985
- Wednesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37009, longitude 0.48611, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beck Row. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373163600
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2025.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 8 January 2025
24 m awayRef 2025371539071
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 6 December 2024
24 m awayRef 2024371528180
Slight
Ford crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 13 January 2001
41 m awayRef 200137B010075
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 15 April 1983
45 m awayRef 1983373063500
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 March 1989
50 m awayRef 1989373044300
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 30 July 2013
50 m awayRef 201337EA73372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1985373163600 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 1985.