Serious C road crash in West Suffolk CB8 on 22 December 1990 at 23:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on a C road in West Suffolk at 23:00 on Saturday 22 December 1990. The 46-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 1990
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23248, longitude 0.51722, in the CB8 postcode district. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990373228600
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,256 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1990373228600 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 1990.