A140 crash in Mid Suffolk on 16 December 1986 at 11:10 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A140 in Mid Suffolk at 11:10 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. The 19-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986372142500
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1117
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1986372142500 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 1986.