A1071 crash in Babergh on 12 January 2012 at 09:46 involving a Renault Trucks lorry
A Renault Trucks lorry and a Lexus IS200 were involved in a crash on the A1071 in Babergh at 09:46 on Thursday 12 January 2012. The 23-year-old female driver of the Lexus IS200 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2012
- Thursday, 09:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trucks and Lexus IS200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04601, longitude 0.92624, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370017612
- 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
- 1071
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1997.
Slight
Rover crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 27 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199737B001827
Serious
Peugeot Expert crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 1 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025371611570
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 10 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200537B021421
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 17 August 2011
10 m awayRef 2011370329211
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 17 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996373504350
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 14 January 1988
10 m awayRef 1988373011900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,837 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Lexus IS200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lexus IS200)
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 2012370017612 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 2012.