Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk CB9 on 16 July 2016 at 22:18 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 22:18 on Saturday 16 July 2016. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08108, longitude 0.424, 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
- 2016370089507
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2023.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 23 June 2023
5 m awayRef 2023371330501
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 23 April 1981
5 m awayRef 1981373066000
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 December 2001
15 m awayRef 200137B012729
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 23 November 2012
15 m awayRef 2012370486012
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 29 May 2010
15 m awayRef 201037B045023
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 March 1987
35 m awayRef 1987373046100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016370089507 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 2016.