A134 crash in Babergh on 15 October 2002 at 17:25 involving a Renault Laguna
A car and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 17:25 on Tuesday 15 October 2002. The 27-year-old female driver of the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2002
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0455, longitude 0.74943, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sudbury South East, Babergh, CO10 2YW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200237B014946
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2005.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A134 in Babergh, 12 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200537B022372
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Fiat Ducato crash on the A134 in Babergh, 13 October 2021
3 m awayRef 2021371129536
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A134 in Babergh, 14 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995373504720
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A134 in Babergh, 12 November 2025
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A134 in Babergh, 13 May 2006
32 m awayRef 200637B025184
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A134 in Babergh, 16 July 2011
50 m awayRef 2011370287411
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Laguna)
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 200237B014946 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 2002.