A1189 crash in Ipswich on 6 December 2018 at 08:34 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Hyundai i20 were involved in a crash on the A1189 in Ipswich at 08:34 on Thursday 6 December 2018. The 25-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai, the 47-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i20 and a 25-year-old male passenger in the Hyundai i20 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 08:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Hyundai i20
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0566, longitude 1.20157, in the IP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bixley, Ipswich, IP3 8NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018370353932
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1189
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 9 December 1980
4 m awayRef 1980371219200
Slight
Car crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 13 March 1989
4 m awayRef 1989371039800
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 29 September 2011
6 m awayRef 2011370390711
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 2 October 2009
6 m awayRef 200937G027944
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 27 December 2020
9 m awayRef 2020371015266
Slight
Car crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 17 January 1991
9 m awayRef 1991371010000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i20
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i20)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i20)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018370353932 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 2018.