C road crash in Babergh IP9 on 21 February 2007 at 17:50 involving a Citroen C3
A car and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 17:50 on Wednesday 21 February 2007. The 17-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 21 Feb 2007
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98251, longitude 1.06075, in the IP9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737G021888
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 120 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 1986.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A133 in Tendring, 22 December 1986
120 m awayRef 19864200E1311
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 17 April 1981
161 m awayRef 1981371060700
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Babergh, 26 February 1996
316 m awayRef 1996371602160
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Babergh, 22 July 2000
321 m awayRef 200037G006720
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Babergh, 9 January 2000
361 m awayRef 200037G005605
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 June 1981
391 m awayRef 1981371094800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200737G021888 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.