Serious A1120 crash in Mid Suffolk on 16 August 1991 at 20:15 involving a Datsun Cherry
A Datsun Cherry crashed on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk at 20:15 on Friday 16 August 1991. The 19-year-old female 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
- 16 Aug 1991
- Friday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Datsun Cherry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19713, longitude 1.05085, 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
- 1991373328500
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1120
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 11 January 2009
14 m awayRef 200937B041554
Slight
Car crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 24 July 1987
36 m awayRef 1987373129400
Serious
Suzuki Splash crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 5 June 2025
42 m awayRef 2025371599164
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 18 May 1991
42 m awayRef 1991373303900
Slight
Bedford crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 8 February 1990
67 m awayRef 1990373025700
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 18 August 2015
69 m awayRef 201537EA92924
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Datsun Cherry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun Cherry)
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 1991373328500 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 1991.