A14 crash in Babergh on 27 November 2007 at 16:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A14 in Babergh at 16:30 on Tuesday 27 November 2007. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206, the 24-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and the 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2007
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03786, longitude 1.09721, in the IP8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sproughton & Pinewood, Babergh, IP8 3SF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737G023755
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2005.
Slight
LDV Maxus crash on the A14 in Babergh, 15 December 2005
22 m awayRef 200537G018968
Serious
MG Montego crash on the A45 in Babergh, 25 November 1990
22 m awayRef 1990371172200
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A12 in Babergh, 26 January 2013
27 m awayRef 201337EA69083
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1100 crash on the A14 in Babergh, 7 July 2018
41 m awayRef 2018370309691
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Babergh, 7 April 2010
45 m awayRef 201037G029186
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A14 in Babergh, 10 December 1995
45 m awayRef 1995371614290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200737G023755 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.