Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO10 on 26 February 2003 at 19:13 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 19:13 on Wednesday 26 February 2003. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 19:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03346, longitude 0.75685, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Cornard, Babergh, CO10 0HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B016045
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2017.
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BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk, 6 April 2017
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Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 15 March 2017
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Peugeot 2008 crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 30 December 2016
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Toyota Starlet crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 17 December 2009
36 m awayRef 200937B043905
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 25 August 1982
36 m awayRef 1982373147400
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 27 July 1988
42 m awayRef 1988373143400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200337B016045 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 2003.