A604 crash in West Suffolk on 8 October 1998 at 16:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A604 in West Suffolk at 16:35 on Thursday 8 October 1998. A 7-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 8 Oct 1998
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0832, longitude 0.4402, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B004306
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 604
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 10 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200937B042718
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 1 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200437B019620
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 10 January 1992
10 m awayRef 1992373502400
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 27 July 1984
10 m awayRef 1984373131700
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 20 December 1993
10 m awayRef 1993373505980
Serious
Van crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 23 November 1988
10 m awayRef 1988373231300
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199837B004306 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 1998.