A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 20 March 2014 at 16:45 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 16:45 on Thursday 20 March 2014. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2014
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34437, longitude 0.51577, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mildenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mildenhall Kingsway & Market, West Suffolk, IP28 7LW 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
- 201437EA79248
- 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
- 1101
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2021.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 11 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021371044955
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 2 December 1999
5 m awayRef 199937B007150
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 4 November 1984
17 m awayRef 1984373197400
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 1 July 1988
17 m awayRef 1988373127100
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 3 September 2002
25 m awayRef 200237B014554
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 21 June 2014
25 m awayRef 201437EA81351
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 201437EA79248 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 2014.