A134 crash in Babergh on 15 March 2001 at 07:05 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 07:05 on Thursday 15 March 2001. The 33-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xantia and the 35-year-old male driver of the Citroen AX were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2001
- Thursday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xantia and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02451, longitude 0.8082, in the CO10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Assington, Babergh, CO10 5LD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B010510
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1071
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A134 in Babergh, 1 December 2018
6 m awayRef 2018370352747
Serious
Volvo crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 26 March 2024
7 m awayRef 2024371425465
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A134 in Babergh, 24 August 2015
8 m awayRef 201537EA93159
Serious
Volvo crash on the A134 in Babergh, 8 July 1993
10 m awayRef 1993373503030
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A134 in Babergh, 17 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199737B001236
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A134 in Babergh, 1 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201037B045869
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)
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 200137B010510 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 2001.