Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk CB9 on 13 February 2009 at 18:01 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 18:01 on Friday 13 February 2009. A 49-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2009
- Friday, 18:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08083, longitude 0.43529, 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 8HF area accident hotspot. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937B041787
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 27 October 1989
10 m awayRef 1989373202100
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 9 August 1992
36 m awayRef 1992373533600
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 24 January 1987
73 m awayRef 1987373010800
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 28 January 1981
82 m awayRef 1981373017600
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 5 June 1992
91 m awayRef 1992373522100
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 16 August 2024
93 m awayRef 2024371481401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing 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 200937B041787 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 2009.