C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP30 on 9 July 1997 at 16:30 involving a Mercedes lorry
A bicycle and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 16:30 on Wednesday 9 July 1997. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24373, longitude 0.91897, in the IP30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elmswell.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199737B001418
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1988.
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Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 16 November 1988
61 m awayRef 1988373224600
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Volvo 340 crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 21 October 1990
153 m awayRef 1990373184500
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Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 29 June 1988
221 m awayRef 1988373125700
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Volvo crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 22 December 1994
225 m awayRef 1994373308690
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Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 10 November 2004
244 m awayRef 200437B020875
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Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 10 October 2008
331 m awayRef 200837B040837
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 5,958 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 199737B001418 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 1997.