Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP2 on 5 August 2019 at 22:00 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 22:00 on Monday 5 August 2019. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2019
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05084, longitude 1.14427, in the IP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gipping, Ipswich, IP2 9AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019370868541
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1075 in Ipswich, 28 November 1987
15 m awayRef 1987371192200
Serious
Car crash on the B1075 in Ipswich, 16 August 1983
15 m awayRef 1983371138500
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B1075 in Ipswich, 10 October 2019
16 m awayRef 2019370913994
Serious
Skoda Karoq crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 22 December 2024
16 m awayRef 2024371535958
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the B1075 in Ipswich, 18 October 2006
16 m awayRef 200637G020963
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1073 in Ipswich, 1 April 2008
16 m awayRef 200837G024627
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2019370868541 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 2019.