Serious C road crash in East Suffolk NR34 on 24 June 2015 at 14:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in East Suffolk at 14:45 on Wednesday 24 June 2015. The 27-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured and the 61-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44228, longitude 1.59113, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA91376
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 31 July 2012
9 m awayRef 2012370304112
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 15 December 1994
11 m awayRef 1994372206980
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 22 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200037L005138
Slight
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 24 May 1983
21 m awayRef 1983372054400
Serious
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 21 March 1983
34 m awayRef 1983372029400
Slight
Car crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 13 August 1987
38 m awayRef 1987372086800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201537EA91376 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.