A134 crash in Babergh on 4 November 2005 at 11:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 11:20 on Friday 4 November 2005. The 30-year-old female driver of the Saab 9-3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2005
- Friday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03858, longitude 0.74171, 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
- 200537B023703
- 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
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 April 1986.
Fatal
Car crash on the A131 in Babergh, 21 April 1986
20 m awayRef 1986373066300
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A134 in Babergh, 9 December 2014
25 m awayRef 201437EA88053
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A131 in Babergh, 24 August 2017
33 m awayRef 2017370225775
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A134 in Babergh, 5 February 1981
40 m awayRef 1981373019600
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A131 in Babergh, 14 August 2008
41 m awayRef 200837B040447
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A131 in Babergh, 21 October 2013
53 m awayRef 201337EA75125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
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 200537B023703 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 2005.