A1302 crash in West Suffolk on 18 December 2018 at 08:50 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on the A1302 in West Suffolk at 08:50 on Tuesday 18 December 2018. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24776, longitude 0.69975, 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 Abbeygate, West Suffolk, IP33 3XP 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
- 2018370355025
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2017.
Slight
Chrysler PT Cruiser crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 7 September 2017
4 m awayRef 2017370226072
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 2 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023371293004
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 30 April 1991
4 m awayRef 1991373075900
Slight
Skoda 130 crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 28 October 1995
4 m awayRef 1995373307670
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 23 April 2001
4 m awayRef 200137B010761
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A1302 in West Suffolk, 20 November 2009
6 m awayRef 200937B043658
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018370355025 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.