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Serious C road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 12 December 1993 at 01:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Suffolk at 01:00 on Sunday 12 December 1993. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Dec 1993
Sunday, 01:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28977, longitude 0.55038, in the IP28 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1993373405480
Council area
West Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    60 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1993373405480 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 1993.