B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 21 July 1989 at 14:30 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 14:30 on Friday 21 July 1989. The 40-year-old female driver of the car and a 6-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1989
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13479, longitude 1.02013, in the IP6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989373135600
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 May 1995.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 1 May 1995
10 m awayRef 1995373303000
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 10 September 1988
22 m awayRef 1988373176300
Serious
Car crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 28 September 1981
51 m awayRef 1981373168500
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 2 November 2002
58 m awayRef 200237B015052
Slight
Honda crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 13 August 1991
71 m awayRef 1991373329800
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 9 August 2024
109 m awayRef 2024371477868
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,290 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1989373135600 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 1989.