B1103 crash in West Suffolk on 16 July 1985 at 12:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk at 12:45 on Tuesday 16 July 1985. The 55-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 1985
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26348, longitude 0.37535, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373120900
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 5 September 1980
20 m awayRef 1980373147800
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 17 May 1988
30 m awayRef 1988373094000
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 9 July 1994
30 m awayRef 1994373403130
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 5 December 1997
36 m awayRef 199737B002406
Serious
MG ZR crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 7 October 2011
50 m awayRef 2011370397911
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B1103 in West Suffolk, 7 August 2016
67 m awayRef 2016370099476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, 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 1985373120900 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 1985.