A12 crash in East Suffolk on 28 November 2019 at 00:15 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A12 in East Suffolk at 00:15 on Thursday 28 November 2019. The 17-year-old male driver, a 19-year-old male passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2019
- Thursday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11778, longitude 1.31571, in the IP13 postcode district. 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
- 2019370926998
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 6 July 1987
9 m awayRef 1987371098500
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 20 October 2025
37 m awayRef 2025371656913
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 20 November 2009
72 m awayRef 200937G028246
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 30 December 1998
72 m awayRef 199837G003718
Fatal
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 6 July 1994
108 m awayRef 1994371704540
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 27 March 2004
114 m awayRef 200437G014776
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2019370926998 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 2019.