Serious A1093 crash in East Suffolk on 18 March 1983 at 07:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1093 in East Suffolk at 07:10 on Friday 18 March 1983. A 27-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Mar 1983
- Friday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04052, longitude 1.2795, in the IP10 postcode district. The location was in the former Suffolk Coastal district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983371044400
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1093
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 16 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199937G004374
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 4 August 2025
16 m awayRef 2025371658016
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 5 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199937G005423
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1093 in East Suffolk, 1 April 1981
36 m awayRef 1981371052100
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 3 August 1991
41 m awayRef 1991371714900
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Suffolk, 5 December 1989
45 m awayRef 1989371182600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 1983371044400 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1983.