Serious A144 crash in East Suffolk on 7 May 2025 at 08:25 involving a Suzuki Jimny
A Suzuki Jimny crashed on the A144 in East Suffolk at 08:25 on Wednesday 7 May 2025. The 23-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 May 2025
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Jimny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30445, longitude 1.51793, in the IP19 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025371586870
- 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
- 144
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 10 October 1986
12 m awayRef 1986372111400
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 13 June 2019
35 m awayRef 2019370858117
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 21 June 2014
56 m awayRef 201437EA81416
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 22 December 2000
68 m awayRef 200037L005156
Serious
Audi Q2 crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 13 March 2024
86 m awayRef 2024371425664
Serious
Car crash on the A144 in East Suffolk, 3 November 1987
100 m awayRef 1987372125800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Jimny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Jimny)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025371586870 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 2025.