Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk CB9 on 28 April 2011 at 17:43 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 17:43 on Thursday 28 April 2011. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2011
- Thursday, 17:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09183, longitude 0.41224, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haverhill West, West Suffolk, CB9 7FZ 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
- 2011370171811
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 2016.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to 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 2011370171811 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 2011.