A134 crash in West Suffolk on 25 September 1993 at 14:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and an Austin Morris Mini were involved in a crash on the A134 in West Suffolk at 14:25 on Saturday 25 September 1993. The 28-year-old female driver of the Austin Morris Mini was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 1993
- Saturday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25591, longitude 0.71783, in the IP32 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993373306200
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 45
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 22 November 1989
At the same spotRef 1989373226400
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 13 June 1991
At the same spotRef 1991373311600
Slight
Kawasaki Z750 crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 7 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993373304480
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 18 July 1987
At the same spotRef 1987373124000
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 28 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200437B019581
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A143 in West Suffolk, 11 December 2019
2 m awayRef 2019370932645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Morris Mini)
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 1993373306200 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 1993.