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Serious unclassified road crash in East Suffolk NR32 on 26 March 1983 at 10:13 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Suffolk at 10:13 on Saturday 26 March 1983. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Mar 1983
Saturday, 10:13
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49295, longitude 1.73615, in the NR32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lowestoft. The location was in the former Waveney district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983372030600
Council area
East Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    43 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1983372030600 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.