Serious A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 21 June 2002 at 22:37 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 22:37 on Friday 21 June 2002. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 2002
- Friday, 22:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23275, longitude 0.38077, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B014030
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 23 September 2006.
Fatal
Proton Persona crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 23 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200637B026171
Fatal
Van crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 27 March 1997
28 m awayRef 199737B000847
Slight
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 6 October 1982
32 m awayRef 1982373178600
Serious
Volvo 850 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 13 January 2001
64 m awayRef 200137B010086
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 27 January 1999
64 m awayRef 199937B005138
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 19 December 1998
67 m awayRef 199837B004839
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200237B014030 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 2002.