A131 crash in Babergh on 15 April 2014 at 18:30 involving a Honda HR-V
A Honda HR-V and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A131 in Babergh at 18:30 on Tuesday 15 April 2014. The 18-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda HR-V and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03558, longitude 0.72188, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA79734
- 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
- 131
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1115
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A131 in Babergh, 12 March 2013
1 m awayRef 201337EA70224
Slight
Scania crash on the A131 in Babergh, 5 May 2015
4 m awayRef 201537EA90186
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A131 in Babergh, 19 December 2007
6 m awayRef 200737B029760
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A131 in Babergh, 21 May 2009
6 m awayRef 200937B042448
Serious
Car crash on the A131 in Babergh, 16 February 1984
9 m awayRef 1984373033600
Serious
Car crash on the A131 in Babergh, 10 September 1988
9 m awayRef 1988373174600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda HR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
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 201437EA79734 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 2014.