B1508 crash in Babergh on 7 December 2012 at 20:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a car were involved in a crash on the B1508 in Babergh at 20:30 on Friday 7 December 2012. The 23-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2012
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03188, longitude 0.74349, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Cornard, Babergh, CO10 0HQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012370514012
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1508
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 25 February 1989
14 m awayRef 1989373039800
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 23 September 1981
14 m awayRef 1981373164000
Serious
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 11 August 1981
14 m awayRef 1981373139300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 31 October 1987
14 m awayRef 1987373205200
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 21 May 2016
15 m awayRef 2016370073032
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 18 November 1997
20 m awayRef 199737B002263
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2012370514012 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.