Serious C road crash in Babergh IP9 on 15 October 2014 at 09:33 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 09:33 on Wednesday 15 October 2014. The 58-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 106 was seriously injured and the 67-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 09:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 106 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98917, longitude 1.09225, in the IP9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA84624
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 117 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2013.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Babergh, 6 June 2013
117 m awayRef 201337EA71918
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A137 in Babergh, 13 July 1994
334 m awayRef 1994371607300
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A137 in Babergh, 3 February 1994
343 m awayRef 1994371601070
Fatal
Car crash on the A137 in Babergh, 11 August 1987
348 m awayRef 1987371119700
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A137 in Babergh, 12 November 2001
352 m awayRef 200137G009516
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A137 in Babergh, 17 February 2008
352 m awayRef 200837G024379
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 201437EA84624 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.