A134 crash in Babergh on 23 September 2003 at 09:45 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 09:45 on Tuesday 23 September 2003. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2003
- Tuesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03956, longitude 0.77283, in the CO10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Cornard, Babergh, CO10 0QA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017646
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2002.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A134 in Babergh, 19 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200237B014016
Serious
MG TF crash on the A134 in Babergh, 3 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200637B025784
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A134 in Babergh, 8 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012370108512
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in West Suffolk, 31 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200337B016277
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A134 in Babergh, 14 June 2022
4 m awayRef 2022371193785
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A134 in Babergh, 23 October 1982
14 m awayRef 1982373194100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 200337B017646 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.