A604 crash in West Suffolk on 10 May 2001 at 17:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A604 in West Suffolk at 17:00 on Thursday 10 May 2001. The 17-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
- 10 May 2001
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0812, longitude 0.44363, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haverhill Central, West Suffolk, CB9 0BU area accident hotspot. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B010868
- 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
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 15 June 2014
9 m awayRef 201437EA81175
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 6 January 1983
50 m awayRef 1983373001600
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 16 March 2015
55 m awayRef 201537EA88877
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 16 March 2018
56 m awayRef 2018370281671
Serious
Car crash on the A1307 in West Suffolk, 14 November 1997
57 m awayRef 199737B002190
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 1 October 1980
57 m awayRef 1980373164300
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, on vehicle 2 (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 200137B010868 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.