A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 21 September 2000 at 19:55 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 19:55 on Thursday 21 September 2000. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24376, longitude 0.40553, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009171
- 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
- 1304
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 16 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 16 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981373123800
Slight
Taxi crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 1 September 2012
At the same spotRef 2012370348912
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 17 July 1989
At the same spotRef 1989373132400
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 17 February 2017
2 m awayRef 2017370157380
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 18 May 2024
4 m awayRef 2024371444679
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 10 August 2019
5 m awayRef 2019370887864
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 200037B009171 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 2000.