A1156 crash in Ipswich on 25 May 2023 at 09:36 involving a Seat Leon
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2023
- Thursday, 09:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04195, longitude 1.19802, in the IP3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Priory Heath, Ipswich, IP3 9HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023371341979
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2015.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 8 May 2015
1 m awayRef 201537EA91003
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 24 September 2020
1 m awayRef 2020370986024
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 30 October 2021
2 m awayRef 2021371134493
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 10 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025371683160
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 19 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025371671464
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the A1189 in Ipswich, 29 April 2004
4 m awayRef 200437G014959
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023371341979 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 2023.