Serious A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 3 September 2014 at 17:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 17:45 on Wednesday 3 September 2014. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Sep 2014
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37384, longitude 0.47253, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA83241
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 12 May 2006
9 m awayRef 200637B025192
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 6 January 2009
14 m awayRef 200937B041516
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 13 November 1981
93 m awayRef 1981373200200
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 18 June 1989
93 m awayRef 1989373114400
Serious
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 19 December 1983
113 m awayRef 1983373232800
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 23 July 1982
113 m awayRef 1982373125700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201437EA83241 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.