A12 crash in East Suffolk on 11 March 2015 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A12 in East Suffolk at 15:45 on Wednesday 11 March 2015. A 13-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 11 Mar 2015
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47671, longitude 1.74908, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harbour & Normanston, East Suffolk, NR32 2JS area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA88623
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2008.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 1 September 2008
1 m awayRef 200837L015998
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 6 September 2020
6 m awayRef 2020370980936
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 23 November 2020
7 m awayRef 2020371016249
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 18 December 2013
7 m awayRef 201337EA76805
Slight
Mobility scooter crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 9 December 2025
8 m awayRef 2025371680385
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 21 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025371671916
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201537EA88623 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.