A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 23 July 2008 at 17:00 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 17:00 on Wednesday 23 July 2008. The 48-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2008
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23354, longitude 0.38213, in the CB8 postcode district. 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
- 200837B040299
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 2012.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 17 August 2012
28 m awayRef 2012370342312
Serious
Bus crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 26 July 2013
36 m awayRef 201337EA73105
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 28 August 1994
42 m awayRef 1994373403900
Serious
WK Bikes 125 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 11 March 2015
43 m awayRef 201537EA88659
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 5 August 1985
54 m awayRef 1985373135200
Serious
Volvo 850 crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 13 January 2001
64 m awayRef 200137B010086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 48, 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 200837B040299 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 2008.