Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP1 on 13 December 2016 at 15:30 involving a BMW Z4
A BMW Z4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 15:30 on Tuesday 13 December 2016. A 10-year-old male 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
- 13 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW Z4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08123, longitude 1.14038, in the IP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitton, Ipswich, IP1 6AH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370140385
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 4 March 1997
31 m awayRef 199737G000533
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Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 30 October 1998
70 m awayRef 199837G003370
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 5 September 2006
70 m awayRef 200637G020698
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Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 4 February 2025
76 m awayRef 2025371593738
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 18 January 1991
81 m awayRef 1991371010500
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 16 December 1993
81 m awayRef 1993371612640
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW Z4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW Z4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2016370140385 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.