C road crash in Mid Suffolk on 28 December 1979 at 20:30 involving a car

A car crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 20:30 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 71-year-old male driver and a 69-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 20:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197937LSUGP30
Council area: Mid Suffolk
Police force: Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 69, 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 197937LSUGP30 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.