B1112 crash in West Suffolk on 9 November 2005 at 06:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk at 06:00 on Wednesday 9 November 2005. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40779, longitude 0.52605, in the IP27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lakenheath, West Suffolk, IP27 9EP 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
- 200537B023713
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 28 June 2017
42 m awayRef 2017370202481
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk, 8 January 2005
45 m awayRef 200537B021399
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk, 15 March 2001
51 m awayRef 200137B010504
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk, 18 August 2022
53 m awayRef 2022371224512
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk, 15 April 2006
54 m awayRef 200637B024974
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B1112 in West Suffolk, 9 October 2024
60 m awayRef 2024371507331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 200537B023713 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 2005.