Serious unclassified road crash in East Suffolk IP11 on 10 December 2025 at 20:54 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 20:54 on Wednesday 10 December 2025. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 20:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96495, longitude 1.33344, in the IP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Felixstowe. 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
- 2025371681248
- 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
- Other 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 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 20 May 1980
9 m awayRef 1980371082000
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 6 September 2012
17 m awayRef 2012370357112
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 21 January 1989
40 m awayRef 1989371010000
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 24 October 1990
45 m awayRef 1990371150600
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 22 January 1981
45 m awayRef 1981371011900
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 13 July 1990
45 m awayRef 1990371101700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
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 2025371681248 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.