A134 crash in Babergh on 22 August 1991 at 21:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Morris 440 were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 21:45 on Thursday 22 August 1991. The 35-year-old female driver of the Morris 440 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 1991
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Morris 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04892, longitude 0.74347, 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
- 1991373519900
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 2 July 2002
22 m awayRef 200237B014254
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 3 June 1983
22 m awayRef 1983373092300
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A134 in Babergh, 13 June 1990
54 m awayRef 1990373102000
Slight
Mazda B 1 crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 1 April 1990
80 m awayRef 1990373059000
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 13 June 2017
84 m awayRef 2017370198469
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A134 in Babergh, 22 December 2023
86 m awayRef 2023371391255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Morris 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Morris 440)
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 1991373519900 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 1991.