Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP33 on 7 November 2018 at 16:11 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 16:11 on Wednesday 7 November 2018. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 16:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24645, longitude 0.68995, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018370347724
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2004.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 23 March 2004
36 m awayRef 200437B019144
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 18 June 1984
39 m awayRef 1984373103100
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 2 July 1981
48 m awayRef 1981373112600
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 10 February 2000
54 m awayRef 200037B007623
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 12 July 1985
67 m awayRef 1985373118300
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 16 July 2004
68 m awayRef 200437B019955
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018370347724 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.