B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 9 February 2001 at 17:40 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van hit a pedestrian on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 17:40 on Friday 9 February 2001. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2001
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24649, longitude 0.40832, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket East, West Suffolk, CB8 8EG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B010258
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1986.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 26 November 1986
10 m awayRef 1986373207300
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 29 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199937B006047
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 4 November 2008
14 m awayRef 200837B041038
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 12 January 2000
20 m awayRef 200037B007427
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 13 March 1993
22 m awayRef 1993373401190
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 30 June 2015
27 m awayRef 201537EA91510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- 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 200137B010258 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 2001.