C road crash in Babergh on 22 December 1979 at 17:40 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 17:40 on Saturday 22 December 1979. A 23-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LMRIP00
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 197937LMRIP00 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.