A1117 crash in East Suffolk on 5 July 2002 at 11:10 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Hyundai Lantra were involved in a crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk at 11:10 on Friday 5 July 2002. The 31-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Lantra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2002
- Friday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Hyundai Lantra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47906, longitude 1.71603, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oulton Broad, East Suffolk, NR33 9NQ area accident hotspot. 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
- 200237L007338
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1117
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 10 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200937L016881
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 22 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982372076400
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 26 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200037L005159
Slight
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 4 June 1989
At the same spotRef 1989372061400
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 23 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200137L005688
Serious
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 4 August 1987
At the same spotRef 1987372084100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Lantra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,836 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Lantra)
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 200237L007338 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 2002.