Serious unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP32 on 12 May 2012 at 18:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 18:05 on Saturday 12 May 2012. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 2012
- Saturday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25928, longitude 0.70621, in the IP32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tollgate, West Suffolk, IP32 6DF 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
- 2012370183512
- 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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 29 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982373071500
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 20 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200437B020192
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 7 September 2016
20 m awayRef 2016370105147
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 24 August 2002
22 m awayRef 200237B014490
Serious
Ford Tourneo crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 14 June 2021
49 m awayRef 2021371057225
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 19 January 1987
72 m awayRef 1987373006700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2012370183512 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.