Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP2 on 28 January 2015 at 13:18 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 13:18 on Wednesday 28 January 2015. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2015
- Wednesday, 13:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05009, longitude 1.15581, in the IP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alexandra, Ipswich, IP4 1DX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA87522
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 1992.
Serious
Suzuki SJ crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 9 September 1992
31 m awayRef 1992371681500
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 11 August 2015
36 m awayRef 201537EA92660
Slight
Scooter crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 22 June 1987
43 m awayRef 1987371088100
Slight
Car crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 27 August 1982
43 m awayRef 1982371138200
Slight
Car crash on the A137 in Ipswich, 12 September 1986
44 m awayRef 1986371149200
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 3 February 2004
47 m awayRef 200437G014438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201537EA87522 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 2015.