Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO10 on 16 October 2003 at 08:35 involving a Volkswagen Vento
A car and a Volkswagen Vento were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 08:35 on Thursday 16 October 2003. A 57-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2003
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Vento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04331, longitude 0.73179, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sudbury North West, Babergh, CO10 1RA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200337B017802
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 13 December 2006
58 m awayRef 200637B026959
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 20 June 1980
64 m awayRef 1980373101900
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 1 December 1991
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Yamaha Ybr crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 12 April 2021
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 19 January 1986
78 m awayRef 1986373010700
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 14 March 2011
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Vento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200337B017802 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.