Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk CB9 on 2 December 2002 at 16:55 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 16:55 on Monday 2 December 2002. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2002
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0767, longitude 0.44806, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B015344
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 143
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 30 January 2014
5 m awayRef 201437EA77884
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 1 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200937B043068
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 17 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370074911
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 30 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025371584049
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 23 June 2015
12 m awayRef 201537EA91859
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 30 January 2017
13 m awayRef 2017370158807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 200237B015344 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.