A45 crash in Mid Suffolk on 29 December 1979 at 20:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A45 in Mid Suffolk at 20:30 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LTUGD30
- Council area
- Mid 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, 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 197937LTUGD30 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.