A14 crash in East Suffolk on 1 May 2011 at 08:24 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR crashed on the A14 in East Suffolk at 08:24 on Sunday 1 May 2011. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2011
- Sunday, 08:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9793, longitude 1.33116, in the IP11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Western Felixstowe, East Suffolk, IP11 9QN 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
- 2011370177911
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 154
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A14 in East Suffolk, 25 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025371646592
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in East Suffolk, 13 December 1988
14 m awayRef 1988371196000
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A14 in East Suffolk, 20 July 2003
14 m awayRef 200337G013166
Slight
DAF Trucks FTG 95XF crash on the A14 in East Suffolk, 15 February 2007
14 m awayRef 200737G021846
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A14 in East Suffolk, 12 November 2008
22 m awayRef 200837G026071
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A14 in Ipswich, 23 March 2005
22 m awayRef 200537G017233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
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 2011370177911 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 2011.