19-year-old dies following incident on the A14 at Rougham

Investigations were continuing today following a death on the A14 at Rougham early yesterday morning.

The incident happened on the Bury St Edmunds-bound carriageway at around 4.35am on Sunday.

A car, followed by a police vehicle and then an ambulance, were all involved in a collision with the man who was in the carriageway.

He sadly died at the scene and is believed to be 19 years old and from the local area, however he has not as yet been formally identified

His next of kin have been informed, Suffolk police said.

Yesterday afternoon, a police spokesman said: “Neither the police car or the ambulance were responding to an emergency at the time and as such were not travelling on ‘blue light’ runs.

“The police vehicle was conveying a person under arrest to custody and the ambulance had a patient on board, however no one in either of these vehicles, or the other car involved, sustained any injuries.”

The westbound carriageway was closed while a collision investigation took place, reopening at 2.30pm.

It total, it had been closed for around 10 hours.

Suffolk police say they have informed the Independent Office for Police Conduct about this incident, under standard procedures.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Team on 101, quoting reference CAD 80 of 14 October.