A154 crash in East Suffolk on 18 December 2021 at 11:40 involving a Volvo V40
Four vehicles, including a Volvo V40 and a Kia Sportage, were involved in a crash on the A154 in East Suffolk at 11:40 on Saturday 18 December 2021. The 69-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2021
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volvo V40 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9763, longitude 1.33774, in the IP11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Western Felixstowe, East Suffolk, IP11 9QN 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
- 2021371145072
- 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
- 154
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 79 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2003.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 16 January 2003
79 m awayRef 200337G012074
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 8 February 2000
86 m awayRef 200037G005762
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A154 in Ipswich, 14 July 2005
87 m awayRef 200537G017961
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 10 December 2003
113 m awayRef 200337G014046
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 21 May 2011
143 m awayRef 2011370202911
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A154 in East Suffolk, 5 November 2021
147 m awayRef 2021371137671
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2021371145072 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 2021.