Serious A45 crash in Mid Suffolk on 8 December 1985 at 18:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A45 in Mid Suffolk at 18:05 on Sunday 8 December 1985. The 22-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23807, longitude 0.82646, in the IP30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373214100
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 10 April 1990
10 m awayRef 1990373062400
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 20 June 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373105700
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 21 December 1991
22 m awayRef 1991373361600
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 7 July 2021
29 m awayRef 2021371093493
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 31 August 2007
32 m awayRef 200737B028744
Serious
Lorry crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 18 January 1989
60 m awayRef 1989373008200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, 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 1985373214100 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.