B1437 crash in East Suffolk on 13 September 1987 at 20:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk at 20:15 on Sunday 13 September 1987. The 69-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 68-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1987
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41728, longitude 1.71106, in the NR33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kessingland. The location was in the former Waveney district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987372102000
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1437
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2015.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk, 7 June 2015
26 m awayRef 201537EA90810
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 18 March 2017
51 m awayRef 2017370169458
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk, 24 August 2022
60 m awayRef 2022371212388
Slight
Car crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk, 26 May 1984
100 m awayRef 1984372050700
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in East Suffolk, 17 September 2012
125 m awayRef 2012370368712
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1437 in East Suffolk, 13 December 2014
130 m awayRef 201437EA86287
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, 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 1987372102000 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 1987.