A143 crash in West Suffolk on 16 March 2018 at 18:57 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on the A143 in West Suffolk at 18:57 on Friday 16 March 2018. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2018
- Friday, 18:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08175, longitude 0.44342, 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 0BU 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
- 2018370281671
- 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
- 143
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 1 October 1980
28 m awayRef 1980373164300
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 17 October 1984
28 m awayRef 1984373183800
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 18 November 2003
37 m awayRef 200337B018090
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 23 January 2016
47 m awayRef 2016370041190
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 15 June 2014
51 m awayRef 201437EA81175
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A604 in West Suffolk, 10 May 2001
56 m awayRef 200137B010868
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018370281671 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.