A12 crash in East Suffolk on 17 December 2016 at 03:12 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on the A12 in East Suffolk at 03:12 on Saturday 17 December 2016. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 03:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47467, longitude 1.74882, 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
- 2016370143358
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 12
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2017.
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A47 in East Suffolk, 5 March 2017
1 m awayRef 2017370166393
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 15 December 1987
3 m awayRef 1987372147100
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 3 September 2006
3 m awayRef 200637L013348
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 1 October 2004
3 m awayRef 200437L010639
Serious
Taxi crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 24 December 1985
3 m awayRef 1985372146900
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 6 June 1987
3 m awayRef 1987372055900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016370143358 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 2016.