B1080 crash in Babergh on 22 February 2007 at 19:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1080 in Babergh at 19:40 on Thursday 22 February 2007. The 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and an 18-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99914, longitude 1.15981, 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
- 200737G021918
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1080
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 May 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 7 May 1999
22 m awayRef 199937G004334
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 12 December 1998
32 m awayRef 199837G003638
Slight
Car crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 11 February 2015
37 m awayRef 201537EA87939
Serious
Dennis crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 21 April 2008
63 m awayRef 200837G024808
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 6 July 2019
162 m awayRef 2019370870869
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the B1080 in Babergh, 7 March 1993
208 m awayRef 1993371602040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200737G021918 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.