Serious B1078 crash in Mid Suffolk on 18 June 1998 at 08:45 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk at 08:45 on Thursday 18 June 1998. The 43-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1998
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10976, longitude 0.97871, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B003653
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1078
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 2025.
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 2 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025371649428
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 15 November 1994
58 m awayRef 1994373308830
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 22 July 1993
250 m awayRef 1993371606760
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 17 January 2004
253 m awayRef 200437B018664
Serious
Kawasaki AR50 crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 4 August 1999
256 m awayRef 199937B006279
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B1078 in Mid Suffolk, 22 July 1993
260 m awayRef 1993371606850
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 43, 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 199837B003653 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 1998.