Serious unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP3 on 14 February 2008 at 17:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 17:50 on Thursday 14 February 2008. The 51-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 2008
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04535, longitude 1.20377, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200837G024351
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2009.
Slight
Sym Jet crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 3 September 2009
86 m awayRef 200937G027774
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 20 November 1985
91 m awayRef 1985371198800
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 10 April 1987
100 m awayRef 1987371049300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 16 January 1983
172 m awayRef 1983371009900
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 2 April 1997
180 m awayRef 199737G000653
Serious
Car crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 20 March 1985
240 m awayRef 1985371044400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200837G024351 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 2008.