B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 12 October 1985 at 16:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 16:45 on Saturday 12 October 1985. A 50-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13802, longitude 1.17426, in the IP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985371172600
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2003.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 17 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200337G014131
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 1 March 2021
14 m awayRef 2021371030360
Slight
Honda CBR600RR crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 15 November 2003
14 m awayRef 200337G013896
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 22 March 2004
20 m awayRef 200437G014794
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 26 November 2018
20 m awayRef 2018370351410
Slight
Nissan Serena crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 18 August 2002
22 m awayRef 200237G011184
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, 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 1985371172600 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 1985.