C road crash in East Suffolk IP12 on 27 February 2014 at 17:00 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in East Suffolk at 17:00 on Thursday 27 February 2014. The 87-year-old male driver of the Citroen C4 and a 54-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2014
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07956, longitude 1.28719, in the IP12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodbridge, East Suffolk, IP12 4TT 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
- 201437EA78569
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 8 October 2015
2 m awayRef 201537EA94338
Serious
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 29 August 1982
3 m awayRef 1982371139800
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 24 May 1987
7 m awayRef 1987371069400
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 24 July 1986
9 m awayRef 1986371122000
Serious
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 2 December 1984
9 m awayRef 1984371201100
Slight
Lorry crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 3 April 1987
11 m awayRef 1987371046400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201437EA78569 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 2014.