C road crash in Ipswich IP3 on 20 January 2013 at 17:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a Chevrolet Spark and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on a C road in Ipswich at 17:30 on Sunday 20 January 2013. The 33-year-old female driver of the Chevrolet Spark was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2013
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03953, longitude 1.16868, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201337EA68977
- Council area
- Ipswich
- 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
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Ipswich, 17 December 2013
3 m awayRef 201337EA76747
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Ipswich, 18 November 2014
4 m awayRef 201437EA85546
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Ipswich, 20 May 2013
6 m awayRef 201337EA71587
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Ipswich, 3 February 2002
8 m awayRef 200237G010109
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Ipswich, 4 July 2005
8 m awayRef 200537G017868
Fatal
Leyland DAF FTG 85 crash on a C road in Ipswich, 22 October 1999
8 m awayRef 199937G005145
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Chevrolet Spark
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,206 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol and LPG
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chevrolet Spark)
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 201337EA68977 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 2013.