A154 crash in East Suffolk on 12 January 2016 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A154 in East Suffolk at 16:30 on Tuesday 12 January 2016. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Beetle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96785, longitude 1.34673, in the IP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Felixstowe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastern Felixstowe, East Suffolk, IP11 7QS area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201637EA96922
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 154
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 2023.
Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 13 March 2023
1 m awayRef 2023371286633
Slight
Car crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 5 August 1987
4 m awayRef 1987371121300
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 14 May 2002
4 m awayRef 200237G010617
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 12 September 1991
4 m awayRef 1991371720100
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 14 December 2000
4 m awayRef 200037G007450
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 20 April 2003
4 m awayRef 200337G012620
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201637EA96922 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.