C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP31 on 16 June 1981 at 00:45 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 00:45 on Tuesday 16 June 1981. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 1981
- Tuesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30172, longitude 0.91574, in the IP31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981373102400
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1991.
Slight
BMW K 100 RT crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 8 August 1991
22 m awayRef 1991373328600
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 27 September 1981
30 m awayRef 1981373164800
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 7 November 1992
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Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 8 July 2005
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Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 27 January 2023
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Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 7 July 2009
114 m awayRef 200937B042710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 1981373102400 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 1981.