A45 crash in West Suffolk on 22 December 1979 at 19:50 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A45 in West Suffolk at 19:50 on Saturday 22 December 1979. The 55-year-old male driver of vehicle 4 was slightly injured. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LMTKD10
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (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 197937LMTKD10 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1979.