Fatal A45 crash in Mid Suffolk on 13 December 1979 at 13:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A45 in Mid Suffolk at 13:30 on Thursday 13 December 1979. The 39-year-old female driver was killed and a 7-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 13 Dec 1979; Thursday, 13:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 killed, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197937LDNGD30
Council area: Mid Suffolk
Police force: Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 45
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Fatal
Female, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 197937LDNGD30 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 1979.