Serious A145 crash in East Suffolk on 8 July 2025 at 11:10 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport and a Fiat Ducato were involved in a crash on the A145 in East Suffolk at 11:10 on Tuesday 8 July 2025. The 58-year-old male driver of the Fiat Ducato, the 69-year-old male driver of the Ford Ecosport and a 56-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Ducato were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ecosport and Fiat Ducato
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4393, longitude 1.60816, in the NR34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worlingham. 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
- 2025371616921
- 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
- 145
- 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
- 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
- Moderately 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, 69 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 2013.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 12 July 2013
69 m awayRef 201337EA72731
Slight
Volvo crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 4 February 2015
87 m awayRef 201537EA87651
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 27 June 1991
100 m awayRef 1991372209500
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A145 in East Suffolk, 7 May 2024
102 m awayRef 2024371454227
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 24 February 2004
135 m awayRef 200437L009728
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B1127 in East Suffolk, 10 August 2016
140 m awayRef 2016370099717
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Fiat Ducato
Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Ducato)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Ecosport)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 56, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Ducato)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025371616921 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.