A12 crash in Babergh on 14 December 1979 at 08:30 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A12 in Babergh at 08:30 on Friday 14 December 1979. The 19-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 14 Dec 1979; Friday, 08:30
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197937LEIGD00
Council area: Babergh
Police force: Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 12
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 19, 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 197937LEIGD00 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 1979.