A134 crash in Babergh on 2 April 2012 at 23:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A134 in Babergh at 23:45 on Monday 2 April 2012. The 17-year-old female driver, an 18-year-old female passenger and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2012
- Monday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03833, longitude 0.77553, in the CO10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Cornard, Babergh, CO10 0QA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370127812
- 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
- 134
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2005.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A134 in Babergh, 16 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200537B022852
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A134 in Babergh, 5 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199737B002376
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A134 in Babergh, 23 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200337B017847
Fatal
Car crash on the A134 in Babergh, 16 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982373008600
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A134 in Babergh, 11 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201037B046163
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A134 in Babergh, 21 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994373503330
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2012370127812 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.