Unclassified road crash in East Suffolk IP11 on 30 December 2019 at 17:26 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A Vauxhall Astra van and a Kawasaki ZR900 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 17:26 on Monday 30 December 2019. The 32-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR900 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2019
- Monday, 17:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Kawasaki ZR900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98962, longitude 1.31021, in the IP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Trimley St Mary and Trimley St Martin. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orwell & Villages, East Suffolk, IP11 0YG 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
- 2019370936776
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- 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
- 30 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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2009.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 6 April 2009
17 m awayRef 200937G026943
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 13 March 2003
19 m awayRef 200337G012533
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 12 February 2012
19 m awayRef 2012370065012
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 5 December 1990
19 m awayRef 1990371177100
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 11 November 1998
19 m awayRef 199837G003536
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 7 July 2002
19 m awayRef 200237G010893
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZR900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZR900)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019370936776 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.