C road crash in Babergh CO8 on 23 December 2006 at 23:35 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on a C road in Babergh at 23:35 on Saturday 23 December 2006. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2006
- Saturday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96748, longitude 0.786, in the CO8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200637B027005
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 June 1981.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 28 June 1981
30 m awayRef 1981373109800
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 June 1983
106 m awayRef 1983373098500
Slight
Triumph Spitfire crash on a C road in Babergh, 26 September 1991
144 m awayRef 1991373527700
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 April 1989
470 m awayRef 1989373073200
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 11 February 1999
488 m awayRef 199937B005218
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Babergh, 3 June 2007
488 m awayRef 200737B028094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
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 200637B027005 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 2006.