Unclassified road crash in East Suffolk IP11 on 8 December 2007 at 08:18 involving a Suzuki Ignis
A Suzuki Ignis and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 08:18 on Saturday 8 December 2007. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Ignis and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96116, longitude 1.34918, in the IP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Felixstowe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastern Felixstowe, East Suffolk, IP11 7QS area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737G023845
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1021
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2009.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A1021 in East Suffolk, 2 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200937G026588
Serious
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Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 28 April 2012
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1021 in East Suffolk, 17 June 2020
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Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1021 in East Suffolk, 16 January 2021
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Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A1021 in East Suffolk, 3 July 2010
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200737G023845 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 2007.