B1508 crash in Babergh on 12 October 1985 at 07:12 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1508 in Babergh at 07:12 on Saturday 12 October 1985. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 07:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02551, longitude 0.74466, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985373175300
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 1982.
Slight
Van crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 15 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982373007300
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 15 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982373029100
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 6 June 1985
At the same spotRef 1985373097500
Serious
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 14 December 1987
At the same spotRef 1987373235500
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 8 October 1993
10 m awayRef 1993373504720
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 2 May 1992
10 m awayRef 1992373517900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1985373175300 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.