A131 crash in Babergh on 24 December 1986 at 11:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A131 in Babergh at 11:30 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. A 72-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 11:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986373235400
Council area: Babergh
Police force: Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 131
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 72, 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 1986373235400 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 1986.