Unclassified road crash in East Suffolk NR33 on 26 September 2025 at 02:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 02:20 on Friday 26 September 2025. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2025
- Friday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46784, longitude 1.71567, in the NR33 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025371646650
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2012.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 28 February 2012
14 m awayRef 2012370075712
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 23 October 2001
16 m awayRef 200137L006288
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 5 December 1998
16 m awayRef 199837L002576
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 24 December 1981
28 m awayRef 1981372143500
Slight
Honda NS125R crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 1 October 1999
35 m awayRef 199937L003609
Serious
HGV crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 23 May 2005
38 m awayRef 200537L011522
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025371646650 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.