C road crash in Mid Suffolk IP14 on 28 October 1998 at 23:20 involving a Lada Samara
A Lada Samara crashed on a C road in Mid Suffolk at 23:20 on Wednesday 28 October 1998. The 42-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 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 1998
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lada Samara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19393, longitude 0.92873, in the IP14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199837B004423
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lada Samara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,288 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lada Samara)
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 199837B004423 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.