A12 crash in East Suffolk on 21 August 2000 at 00:15 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the A12 in East Suffolk at 00:15 on Monday 21 August 2000. A 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2000
- Monday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43286, longitude 1.72068, in the NR33 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037L004671
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1437
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 22 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200137L005441
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 26 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992372105300
Slight
Mercedes CLS Class crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk, 30 January 2021
18 m awayRef 2021371018625
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 18 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200037L005130
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 8 June 1987
22 m awayRef 1987372057600
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 20 September 1985
32 m awayRef 1985372100400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200037L004671 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2000.