A1017 crash in West Suffolk on 27 May 2015 at 11:45 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk at 11:45 on Wednesday 27 May 2015. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2015
- Wednesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07942, longitude 0.41575, in the CB9 postcode district. 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
- 201537EA90699
- 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
- 1017
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2008.
Slight
Harley-Davidson XL 883 crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 23 June 2008
11 m awayRef 200837B040112
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 13 July 1984
34 m awayRef 1984373121200
Serious
BMW R 1150 RT crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 7 September 2006
34 m awayRef 200637B026120
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 24 May 1982
40 m awayRef 1982373086800
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 17 September 2006
41 m awayRef 200637B026128
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1017 in West Suffolk, 14 August 2025
56 m awayRef 2025371628701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, 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 201537EA90699 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.