Serious A143 crash in West Suffolk on 19 July 2011 at 14:30
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A143 in West Suffolk at 14:30 on Tuesday 19 July 2011. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2011
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08223, longitude 0.44179, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011370286011
- 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
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2002.
Slight
Rover crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 26 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200237B013185
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 28 August 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373153600
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 1 September 2010
14 m awayRef 201037B045646
Slight
Nissan Terrano crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 14 July 2006
20 m awayRef 200637B025675
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 20 February 1986
22 m awayRef 1986373030300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 19 March 2010
22 m awayRef 201037B044572
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 2011370286011 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.