C road crash in West Suffolk IP31 on 19 April 1983 at 06:45 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 06:45 on Tuesday 19 April 1983. A 21-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 1983
- Tuesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33242, longitude 0.78418, in the IP31 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983373066100
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 60 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1989.
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 19 December 1989
60 m awayRef 1989373248500
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 7 October 1993
70 m awayRef 1993373306530
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 26 January 1995
72 m awayRef 1995373300870
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 11 July 1980
104 m awayRef 1980373115400
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 5 October 2009
106 m awayRef 200937B043299
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 June 2013
137 m awayRef 201337EA72362
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1983373066100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1983.