Serious A1302 crash in West Suffolk on 8 January 2016 at 07:18 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk at 07:18 on Friday 8 January 2016. The 40-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jan 2016
- Friday, 07:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24909, longitude 0.69159, in the IP33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bury St Edmunds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Minden, West Suffolk, IP33 3YB 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201637EA96708
- 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
- 1302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 19 November 2020.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 19 November 2020
1 m awayRef 2020371009314
Slight
Car crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 19 January 2001
4 m awayRef 200137B010106
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 8 April 2010
4 m awayRef 201037B044697
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 1 July 2021
5 m awayRef 2021371065759
Slight
Car crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 6 February 1986
6 m awayRef 1986373020800
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 5 March 1997
11 m awayRef 199737B000700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 40, 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 201637EA96708 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.