C road crash in Babergh CO10 on 27 April 1980 at 12:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Babergh at 12:10 on Sunday 27 April 1980. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 1980
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05033, longitude 0.74107, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980373071200
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 13 August 1980
54 m awayRef 1980373135100
Slight
Peugeot crash on the A134 in Babergh, 28 August 1990
71 m awayRef 1990373149900
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 16 February 1995
71 m awayRef 1995373500700
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 22 December 1999
76 m awayRef 199937B007333
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 26 September 2024
83 m awayRef 2024371501900
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 2 June 2007
85 m awayRef 200737B028106
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1980373071200 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 1980.