Serious A12 crash in East Suffolk on 6 September 2020 at 17:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A12 in East Suffolk at 17:00 on Sunday 6 September 2020. The 40-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2020
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47677, longitude 1.74916, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harbour & Normanston, East Suffolk, NR32 2JS area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020370980936
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2020.
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 23 November 2020
3 m awayRef 2020371016249
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 21 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025371671916
Slight
Mobility scooter crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 9 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025371680385
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 11 March 2015
6 m awayRef 201537EA88623
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 11 May 2013
7 m awayRef 201337EA71381
Fatal
Car crash on the A12 in East Suffolk, 17 October 1987
7 m awayRef 1987372117200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 40, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2020370980936 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.