Serious A1117 crash in East Suffolk on 29 January 2024 at 16:18 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander hit a pedestrian on the A1117 in East Suffolk at 16:18 on Monday 29 January 2024. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 2024
- Monday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47633, longitude 1.71335, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oulton Broad, East Suffolk, NR33 9NQ 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
- 2024371404155
- 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
- 1117
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2019.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 27 December 2019
1 m awayRef 2019370942583
Slight
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 4 May 1985
4 m awayRef 1985372043200
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 12 May 2007
4 m awayRef 200737L014283
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 1 October 2025
5 m awayRef 2025371649004
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 28 June 1983
9 m awayRef 1983372067500
Slight
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 30 June 1980
9 m awayRef 1980372070300
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024371404155 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 2024.