C road crash in Babergh IP8 on 7 January 1981 at 08:50 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Babergh at 08:50 on Wednesday 7 January 1981. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 1981
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05851, longitude 1.06576, in the IP8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981371001900
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 93 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2016.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 31 October 2016
93 m awayRef 2016370129725
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 7 December 1989
100 m awayRef 1989371182000
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 27 April 2001
114 m awayRef 200137G008194
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 2 October 2018
125 m awayRef 2018370338458
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Babergh, 26 August 2005
264 m awayRef 200537G018262
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 31 July 1981
289 m awayRef 1981371124500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, 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 1981371001900 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 1981.