A1120 crash in Mid Suffolk on 18 March 1994 at 13:10 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton and a Subaru Legacy were involved in a crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk at 13:10 on Friday 18 March 1994. The 45-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Carlton and the 34-year-old male driver of the Subaru Legacy were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 1994
- Friday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Carlton and Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19173, longitude 1.17048, in the IP14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994372201710
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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 8 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 8 January 1993
At the same spotRef 1993372200190
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 10 January 2020
7 m awayRef 2020370938029
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 30 October 1991
10 m awayRef 1991372236500
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 10 November 2009
22 m awayRef 200937B043595
Slight
Scania crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 5 July 1990
58 m awayRef 1990372072500
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1120 in Mid Suffolk, 27 January 1991
100 m awayRef 1991372010900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,212 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Subaru Legacy)
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 1994372201710 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 1994.