C road crash in West Suffolk CB9 on 21 March 2015 at 14:15 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on a C road in West Suffolk at 14:15 on Saturday 21 March 2015. A 23-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
- 21 Mar 2015
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08104, longitude 0.42329, in the CB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haverhill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haverhill Central, West Suffolk, CB9 8HF 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA89048
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 9 February 2001
1 m awayRef 200137B010338
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 16 December 2012
11 m awayRef 2012370527612
Serious
Audi A4 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 11 August 2009
11 m awayRef 200937B043001
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 December 2001
33 m awayRef 200137B012729
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 23 June 2023
42 m awayRef 2023371330501
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 27 November 2025
46 m awayRef 2025371674920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201537EA89048 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 2015.