B1123 crash in East Suffolk on 5 September 1985 at 01:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1123 in East Suffolk at 01:50 on Thursday 5 September 1985. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 1985
- Thursday, 01:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33524, longitude 1.55955, in the IP19 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985372094300
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1123
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2015.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 6 September 2015
12 m awayRef 201537EA93378
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 1 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199937L003713
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 5 January 1981
20 m awayRef 1981372000900
Slight
Honda CBR900RR crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 4 July 2001
20 m awayRef 200137L005846
Serious
Bedford crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 23 July 1995
22 m awayRef 1995372203850
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1123 in East Suffolk, 21 December 1998
30 m awayRef 199837L002630
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1985372094300 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 1985.