Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP28 on 31 January 2018 at 15:40 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 15:40 on Wednesday 31 January 2018. A 69-year-old female 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
- 31 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34282, longitude 0.51195, in the IP28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mildenhall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mildenhall Kingsway & Market, West Suffolk, IP28 7LW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018370268093
- 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
- 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
- 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 10 January 1997.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 10 January 1997
5 m awayRef 199737B000452
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 27 July 1997
5 m awayRef 199737B001507
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 19 March 1997
5 m awayRef 199737B000787
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 25 March 2003
7 m awayRef 200337B016235
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 19 September 2003
8 m awayRef 200337B017579
Slight
Nissan Pulsar crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 4 October 2017
9 m awayRef 2017370233172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2018370268093 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 2018.