Serious C road crash in Mid Suffolk on 29 December 1986 at 14:00 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 14:00 on Monday 29 December 1986. The 41-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured and a 34-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1986
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986372148700
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 41, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1986372148700 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.