A137 crash in Ipswich on 13 November 2013 at 16:45 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the A137 in Ipswich at 16:45 on Wednesday 13 November 2013. The 38-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Combo van 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
- 13 Nov 2013
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04894, longitude 1.15618, in the IP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridge, Ipswich, IP2 8HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201337EA75795
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 137
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2013.
Slight
Toyota crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 19 November 2013
2 m awayRef 201337EA75859
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 17 October 2017
3 m awayRef 2017370232897
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 10 April 2010
6 m awayRef 201037G029155
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 18 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025371670464
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 12 February 1999
11 m awayRef 199937G003956
Slight
Car crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 30 April 1988
12 m awayRef 1988371067800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 201337EA75795 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.