A14 crash in Ipswich on 21 December 2004 at 17:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a car and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on the A14 in Ipswich at 17:30 on Tuesday 21 December 2004. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 25-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2004
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02397, longitude 1.18635, in the IP10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gainsborough, Ipswich, IP3 0SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200437G016538
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2004.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 7 July 2004
20 m awayRef 200437G015356
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 1 February 2016
21 m awayRef 2016370044204
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 9 May 2013
21 m awayRef 201337EA71377
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A14 in East Suffolk, 23 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200337G012148
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 23 May 2024
26 m awayRef 2024371447029
Slight
Volvo crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 21 January 2020
36 m awayRef 2020370938920
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200437G016538 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.