A1088 crash in Mid Suffolk on 31 October 1993 at 03:09 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk at 03:09 on Sunday 31 October 1993. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1993
- Sunday, 03:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25373, longitude 0.86658, in the IP31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993373307350
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1088
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2014.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 24 May 2014
29 m awayRef 201437EA80533
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 15 May 2019
86 m awayRef 2019370849593
Serious
Van crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 4 March 1980
126 m awayRef 1980373040900
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 5 July 1980
132 m awayRef 1980373112100
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 2 December 2014
136 m awayRef 201437EA86002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1088 in Mid Suffolk, 5 May 2023
138 m awayRef 2023371305692
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1993373307350 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.