A14 crash in Ipswich on 21 December 2004 at 06:56 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the A14 in Ipswich at 06:56 on Tuesday 21 December 2004. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2004
- Tuesday, 06:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08005, longitude 1.11049, in the IP1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehouse, Ipswich, IP1 5LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200437G016535
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2007.
Slight
Perodua Kelisa crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 14 March 2007
32 m awayRef 200737G022038
Slight
Mini One crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 17 December 2025
48 m awayRef 2025371684600
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 6 June 2022
58 m awayRef 2022371193316
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 12 November 2025
106 m awayRef 2025371667505
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 16 April 1992
126 m awayRef 1992371633800
Serious
Foden crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 16 May 1997
136 m awayRef 199737G000821
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 200437G016535 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ipswich road accident statistics for 2004.