A1304 crash in West Suffolk on 2 December 2013 at 14:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk at 14:00 on Monday 2 December 2013. The 21-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2013
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24208, longitude 0.40123, in the CB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmarket. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newmarket East, West Suffolk, CB8 8EG 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
- 201337EA76415
- 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
- 1304
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2002.
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 3 April 2002
4 m awayRef 200237B013455
Slight
Car crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 14 November 2001
4 m awayRef 200137B012327
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 22 July 2002
4 m awayRef 200237B014252
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 4 May 2003
4 m awayRef 200337B016493
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 4 June 1990
9 m awayRef 1990373097900
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1304 in West Suffolk, 9 June 1995
9 m awayRef 1995373402520
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 201337EA76415 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.