Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP1 on 17 December 2016 at 19:49 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 19:49 on Saturday 17 December 2016. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 19:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08011, longitude 1.12498, in the IP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehouse, Ipswich, IP1 5LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370143435
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2008.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 8 October 2008
2 m awayRef 200837G025804
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 23 April 2004
2 m awayRef 200437G014911
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 28 June 2005
9 m awayRef 200537G017824
Slight
Car crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 23 June 1986
12 m awayRef 1986371103800
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 2 September 2007
14 m awayRef 200737G023155
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 2 November 1983
14 m awayRef 1983371191900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- 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 2016370143435 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.