Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP3 on 6 October 2012 at 17:30 involving a taxi
A taxi and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 17:30 on Saturday 6 October 2012. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05161, longitude 1.17183, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywells, Ipswich, IP3 8AR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370408112
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1999.
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 22 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199937G004388
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 3 June 2000
20 m awayRef 200037G006384
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Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 27 December 2015
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Chevrolet Spark crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 26 February 2025
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Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 20 October 1991
30 m awayRef 1991371650700
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Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 21 March 2004
30 m awayRef 200437G014727
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2012370408112 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 2012.