C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP31 on 26 January 1997 at 20:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 20:40 on Sunday 26 January 1997. A 27-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1997
- Sunday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2412, longitude 0.82343, in the IP31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199737B000503
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 1991.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 4 November 1991
14 m awayRef 1991373350300
Slight
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22 m awayRef 1986373100900
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 22 November 2025
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Slight
Mitsubishi crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 26 April 2007
50 m awayRef 200737B027876
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 25 April 1984
71 m awayRef 1984373069700
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 22 July 2000
106 m awayRef 200037B008727
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199737B000503 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 1997.