A137 crash in Babergh on 17 June 2011 at 13:00 involving a Mitsubishi
A Mitsubishi, a Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A137 in Babergh at 13:00 on Friday 17 June 2011. The 46-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2011
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mitsubishi and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96872, longitude 1.06884, in the CO11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brantham.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011370242811
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A137 in Babergh, 1 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200637G021327
Slight
Van crash on the A137 in Babergh, 21 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199737G000386
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A137 in Babergh, 5 July 2023
3 m awayRef 2023371331929
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A137 in Babergh, 30 October 1980
20 m awayRef 1980371193400
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A137 in Babergh, 8 September 1982
20 m awayRef 1982371145000
Slight
Bus crash on the A137 in Babergh, 2 August 2005
20 m awayRef 200537G018101
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,470 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
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 2011370242811 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 2011.