Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP1 on 23 January 2016 at 13:40 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Skoda Citigo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 13:40 on Saturday 23 January 2016. A 34-year-old male passenger in the Audi A6 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Skoda Citigo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05776, longitude 1.13951, in the IP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Ipswich, IP1 2NF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370042228
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 July 1994.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A1071 in Ipswich, 22 July 1994
14 m awayRef 1994371607470
Serious
Car crash on the A1071 in Ipswich, 12 September 2015
23 m awayRef 201537EA93565
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 25 November 2019
24 m awayRef 2019370926630
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A1071 in Ipswich, 29 May 2025
25 m awayRef 2025371596217
Serious
Car crash on the A1071 in Ipswich, 14 November 1986
25 m awayRef 1986371190800
Slight
Car crash on the A1071 in Ipswich, 6 October 1982
28 m awayRef 1982371161500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016370042228 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 2016.