C road crash in Babergh CO10 on 16 July 2003 at 19:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 19:00 on Wednesday 16 July 2003. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05481, longitude 0.74766, in the CO10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017058
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 4 September 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 4 September 1992
At the same spotRef 1992373536900
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Babergh, 28 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B015945
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 20 July 2024
9 m awayRef 2024371479038
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Babergh, 1 December 1988
10 m awayRef 1988373264800
Slight
Polestar 2 crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 12 August 2025
19 m awayRef 2025371629362
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 13 June 1987
32 m awayRef 1987373099700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,308 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200337B017058 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.