A142 crash in West Suffolk on 30 March 2013 at 10:35 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A142 in West Suffolk at 10:35 on Saturday 30 March 2013. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26106, longitude 0.39929, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket North, West Suffolk, CB8 7AZ 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
- 201337EA70585
- 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
- 142
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2000.
Slight
BMW K 100 RS crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 14 December 2000
33 m awayRef 200037B009817
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 6 March 1998
39 m awayRef 199837B003002
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 29 August 2004
55 m awayRef 200437B020258
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 19 March 1999
59 m awayRef 199937B005440
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 13 January 1984
65 m awayRef 1984373008000
Slight
Car crash on the A142 in West Suffolk, 25 April 1981
66 m awayRef 1981373067500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201337EA70585 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 2013.