A143 crash in West Suffolk on 9 January 2012 at 06:55 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A143 in West Suffolk at 06:55 on Monday 9 January 2012. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2012
- Monday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09745, longitude 0.46204, in the CB9 postcode district. 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
- 2012370009512
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 22 September 1988
41 m awayRef 1988373186300
Slight
Car crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 1 March 1989
89 m awayRef 1989373044500
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 17 November 1998
112 m awayRef 199837B004581
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 23 October 2011
112 m awayRef 2011370425911
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 31 October 1994
144 m awayRef 1994373504910
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 12 December 2002
144 m awayRef 200237B015445
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 2012370009512 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 2012.