B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 5 August 1993 at 19:44 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 19:44 on Thursday 5 August 1993. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1993
- Thursday, 19:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13786, longitude 1.17688, in the IP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993371607790
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 128 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2019.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 14 November 2019
128 m awayRef 2019370924541
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 10 January 2013
159 m awayRef 201337EA68756
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 26 November 2018
161 m awayRef 2018370351410
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 10 February 2003
161 m awayRef 200337G012283
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 7 October 2017
163 m awayRef 2017370233347
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 6 May 2025
165 m awayRef 2025371601957
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1993371607790 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 1993.