Unclassified road crash in Ipswich IP1 on 9 April 2021 at 00:20 involving an Audi Q5
An Audi Q5 and a Volkswagen Scirocco were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich at 00:20 on Friday 9 April 2021. The 38-year-old female driver of the Audi Q5 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2021
- Friday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q5 and Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06548, longitude 1.12137, in the IP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021371039632
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2000.
Serious
Renault 19 crash on a C road in Ipswich, 11 December 2000
7 m awayRef 200037G007404
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on a C road in Ipswich, 30 October 1997
46 m awayRef 199737G001880
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 8 April 1991
46 m awayRef 1991371050500
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 15 May 2018
48 m awayRef 2018370298473
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on a C road in Ipswich, 21 August 2014
48 m awayRef 201437EA83156
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 15 December 2014
50 m awayRef 201437EA86398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q5)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021371039632 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 2021.