C road crash in East Suffolk IP17 on 31 July 2009 at 18:52 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in East Suffolk at 18:52 on Friday 31 July 2009. The 29-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 15-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2009
- Friday, 18:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21364, longitude 1.49174, in the IP17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saxmundham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saxmundham, East Suffolk, IP17 1EQ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937L017174
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1119
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 28 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200937L017367
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1121 in East Suffolk, 4 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199737L001116
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1119 in East Suffolk, 9 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200937L017116
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 2 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200937L016770
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1121 in Mid Suffolk, 26 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199837L001598
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the B1121 in East Suffolk, 26 December 2017
7 m awayRef 2017370258968
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200937L017174 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 2009.