Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 23 April 2009 at 09:15 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 09:15 on Thursday 23 April 2009. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2009
- Thursday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34901, longitude 0.51609, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mildenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mildenhall Kingsway & Market, West Suffolk, IP28 7LW 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
- 200937B042228
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 6 December 1985
32 m awayRef 1985373216000
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 14 May 1981
71 m awayRef 1981373080800
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 2 November 2001
85 m awayRef 200137B012233
Serious
Aprilia RS 125R Extrema crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 6 September 2002
90 m awayRef 200237B014601
Slight
Fiat Croma crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 8 May 1995
102 m awayRef 1995373401960
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 1 July 2009
168 m awayRef 200937B042708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- 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 200937B042228 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.