Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO10 on 14 August 2013 at 20:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 20:00 on Wednesday 14 August 2013. The 20-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Seat Ibiza were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2013
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10232, longitude 0.6715, in the CO10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201337EA73685
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 123 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1996.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 26 December 1996
123 m awayRef 199637B000299
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 2 August 1986
141 m awayRef 1986373131000
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 17 March 2001
143 m awayRef 200137B010511
Slight
Car crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 11 February 2004
146 m awayRef 200437B018870
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 27 August 1995
146 m awayRef 1995373503640
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1065 in Babergh, 3 August 1988
146 m awayRef 1988373149100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- 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 201337EA73685 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 2013.