A12 crash in East Suffolk on 2 December 2017 at 14:16 involving a goods vehicle
A goods vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A12 in East Suffolk at 14:16 on Saturday 2 December 2017. A 35-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 14:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38897, longitude 1.67142, in the NR34 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrentham, Wangford & Westleton, East Suffolk, NR34 7NX 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
- 2017370250797
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2013.
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 19 November 2013
2 m awayRef 201337EA76099
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 24 April 2022
15 m awayRef 2022371169387
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 14 November 1983
18 m awayRef 1983372121000
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 16 October 1983
26 m awayRef 1983372110300
Serious
Volkswagen crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 11 April 2015
39 m awayRef 201537EA89484
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 16 February 2006
48 m awayRef 200637L012605
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2017370250797 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 2017.