Serious A1152 crash in East Suffolk on 2 October 2025 at 07:50 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 and a Ducati Hypermotard motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk at 07:50 on Thursday 2 October 2025. The 57-year-old male rider of the Ducati Hypermotard motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A1 and Ducati Hypermotard
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10595, longitude 1.31286, in the IP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woodbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melton, East Suffolk, IP12 1HQ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2025371649286
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1152
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 January 2001.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 9 January 2001
5 m awayRef 200137G007599
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 23 July 2020
7 m awayRef 2020370970591
Slight
Triumph crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 23 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200037G006919
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 28 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200137G008788
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 10 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200437G016221
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1152 in East Suffolk, 5 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200537G018484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ducati Hypermotard
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,078 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Ducati Hypermotard)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025371649286 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.