A1141 crash in Babergh on 21 October 2007 at 21:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A1141 in Babergh at 21:05 on Sunday 21 October 2007. The 52-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2007
- Sunday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15477, longitude 0.77648, in the IP30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737B029122
- 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
- 1141
- 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
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2012.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A1141 in Babergh, 19 November 2012
10 m awayRef 2012370499812
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A1141 in Babergh, 27 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994373305870
Fatal
Nissan Primera crash on the A1141 in Babergh, 16 March 2007
32 m awayRef 200737B027599
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A1141 in Babergh, 26 April 1994
162 m awayRef 1994373302970
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Babergh, 6 October 1989
270 m awayRef 1989373192800
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Babergh, 10 April 1982
277 m awayRef 1982373060600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 200737B029122 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 2007.