Serious A143 crash in Mid Suffolk on 19 December 1979 at 12:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A143 in Mid Suffolk at 12:40 on Wednesday 19 December 1979. The 60-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1979
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LJMID30
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 143
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197937LJMID30 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.