Unclassified road crash in Babergh IP29 on 13 January 1997 at 21:55 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Babergh at 21:55 on Monday 13 January 1997. The 18-year-old male driver, a 15-year-old male passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 1997
- Monday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16339, longitude 0.70108, in the IP29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199737B000406
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2022.
Slight
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Serious
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 2 April 2025
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 14 November 2003
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Slight
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 24 January 2015
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199737B000406 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 1997.