B1127 crash in East Suffolk on 31 July 2012 at 12:20 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van, a Renault Clio and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk at 12:20 on Tuesday 31 July 2012. The 41-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van and the 35-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Transporter and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44227, longitude 1.59106, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370304112
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1127
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2015.
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 24 June 2015
9 m awayRef 201537EA91376
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 15 December 1994
10 m awayRef 1994372206980
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 22 December 2000
28 m awayRef 200037L005138
Slight
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 24 May 1983
30 m awayRef 1983372054400
Serious
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 21 March 1983
30 m awayRef 1983372029400
Slight
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 13 August 1987
32 m awayRef 1987372086800
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,460 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2012370304112 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 2012.