Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO10 on 31 August 2009 at 19:00 involving a Ford Mondeo taxi
A Ford Mondeo taxi and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 19:00 on Monday 31 August 2009. The 25-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2009
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04178, longitude 0.73155, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sudbury North West, Babergh, CO10 1RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200937B043048
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 30 August 1987
22 m awayRef 1987373154400
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 8 January 1982
42 m awayRef 1982373004800
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 23 December 2010
71 m awayRef 201037B046548
Serious
Car crash on the A134 in Babergh, 27 April 1985
78 m awayRef 1985373070200
Slight
Lorry crash on the A134 in Babergh, 7 July 1982
78 m awayRef 1982373113600
Slight
Van crash on the A134 in Babergh, 20 August 1985
78 m awayRef 1985373143100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 200937B043048 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 2009.