A1156 crash in Ipswich on 17 December 2020 at 16:32 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1156 in Ipswich at 16:32 on Thursday 17 December 2020. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 16:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05072, longitude 1.16907, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywells, Ipswich, IP3 8AR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020371015757
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1156
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 20 December 2018.
Serious
Audi Q7 crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 20 December 2018
1 m awayRef 2018370352621
Slight
Tesla Model Y crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 22 March 2024
1 m awayRef 2024371423694
Serious
Nissan Note crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 17 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025371684293
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 28 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022371164784
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 22 January 2014
4 m awayRef 201437EA77714
Slight
Mercedes CLS Class crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 25 November 2013
5 m awayRef 201337EA76138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020371015757 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 2020.