Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Suffolk IP30 on 24 November 2007 at 00:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk at 00:30 on Saturday 24 November 2007. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 2007
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23718, longitude 0.90936, in the IP30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elmswell.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B029526
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200737B029526 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2007.