A1152 crash in East Suffolk on 23 July 2020 at 19:40 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk at 19:40 on Thursday 23 July 2020. The 24-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2020
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10591, longitude 1.31287, in the IP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woodbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melton, East Suffolk, IP12 1HQ 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
- 2020370970591
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1152
- 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
- Daylight
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 31 July 2024.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 31 July 2024
4 m awayRef 2024371474979
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 13 April 2005
4 m awayRef 200537G017327
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 10 November 2004
4 m awayRef 200437G016221
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 28 June 2001
4 m awayRef 200137G008788
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 5 October 2005
4 m awayRef 200537G018484
Slight
Triumph crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 23 September 2000
4 m awayRef 200037G006919
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
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 2020370970591 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 2020.