Serious C road crash in Babergh CO10 on 18 June 1985 at 13:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Babergh at 13:15 on Tuesday 18 June 1985. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1985
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04299, longitude 0.73581, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373104700
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Babergh, 3 December 2015
26 m awayRef 201537EA96607
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 May 1983
36 m awayRef 1983373079600
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Babergh, 27 January 2011
41 m awayRef 2011370040711
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 3 March 1984
45 m awayRef 1984373042400
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Babergh, 13 January 1994
45 m awayRef 1994373500190
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 12 September 1985
63 m awayRef 1985373154500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1985373104700 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 1985.