C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP14 on 25 July 1985 at 09:45 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 09:45 on Thursday 25 July 1985. An 8-year-old female passenger in the car and a 6-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1985
- Thursday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18691, longitude 0.96865, in the IP14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373126400
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1999.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 5 June 1999
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Serious
Van crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 6 January 1984
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 17 October 1981
30 m awayRef 1981373181900
Slight
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 2 November 2018
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1985373126400 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.