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Serious C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP14 on 4 April 1990 at 08:25 involving a Vauxhall Carlton taxi

A Vauxhall Carlton taxi hit a pedestrian on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 08:25 on Wednesday 4 April 1990. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Apr 1990
Wednesday, 08:25
Vehicles
1
Vauxhall Carlton
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22434, longitude 1.01757, in the IP14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990373059900
Council area
Mid Suffolk
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    67 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1990373059900 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 1990.