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B1070 crash in Babergh on 13 February 1993 at 17:35 involving a Volvo 460

A Volvo 460 hit a pedestrian on the B1070 in Babergh at 17:35 on Saturday 13 February 1993. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
13 Feb 1993
Saturday, 17:35
Vehicles
1
Volvo 460
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04562, longitude 0.95446, in the IP7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hadleigh.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1993373500690
Council area
Babergh
Police force
Suffolk

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1070
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Fog or mist
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 460

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Engine capacity
    1,721 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 460)

    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 1993373500690 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 1993.