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Serious A143 crash in Mid Suffolk on 7 July 1982 at 05:50 involving a car

A car crashed on the A143 in Mid Suffolk at 05:50 on Wednesday 7 July 1982. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Jul 1982
Wednesday, 05:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36646, longitude 1.11687, in the IP22 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982372070000
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
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
Daylight
Weather
Fog or mist
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 April 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 21, 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 1982372070000 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 1982.