B1062 crash in East Suffolk on 27 January 1988 at 19:17 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk at 19:17 on Wednesday 27 January 1988. A 35-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 1988
- Wednesday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45063, longitude 1.53279, in the NR34 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988372011000
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1062
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2004.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 7 February 2004
20 m awayRef 200437L009658
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 13 January 2009
41 m awayRef 200937L016509
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 27 January 2024
45 m awayRef 2024371403365
Slight
Car crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 16 April 2015
73 m awayRef 201537EA89725
Serious
Car crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 19 January 1987
100 m awayRef 1987372004900
Slight
Colt Galant crash on the B1062 in East Suffolk, 25 May 1992
150 m awayRef 1992372229400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, 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 1988372011000 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 1988.