B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 6 December 2020 at 14:36 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran hit a pedestrian on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 14:36 on Sunday 6 December 2020. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2020
- Sunday, 14:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14982, longitude 1.05387, in the IP6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Needham Market. It is one of the crashes that make up the Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, IP6 8AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020371005429
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 1997.
Serious
MG Metro crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 5 December 1997
7 m awayRef 199737B002410
Slight
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 5 May 2005
8 m awayRef 200537B022330
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 25 November 2011
27 m awayRef 2011370486711
Slight
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 30 November 1983
29 m awayRef 1983373214600
Slight
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 19 December 1988
34 m awayRef 1988373254000
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 7 December 1990
46 m awayRef 1990373224400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020371005429 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2020.