C road crash in East Suffolk IP4 on 15 February 2015 at 19:31 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in East Suffolk at 19:31 on Sunday 15 February 2015. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2015
- Sunday, 19:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05001, longitude 1.22627, in the IP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kesgrave, East Suffolk, IP4 5TL 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
- 201537EA87940
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2022.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 10 September 2022
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 25 November 1996
7 m awayRef 199637G000124
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 25 February 1983
13 m awayRef 1983371032200
Fatal
Honda VFR400R crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 22 August 2000
13 m awayRef 200037G006743
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 12 August 1985
15 m awayRef 1985371134900
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 28 February 1995
18 m awayRef 1995371700700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201537EA87940 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 2015.