B1070 crash in Babergh on 21 November 2014 at 20:00 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on the B1070 in Babergh at 20:00 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 64-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97811, longitude 1.02307, in the CO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Bergholt.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA85712
- 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
- 1070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2002.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 3 May 2002
17 m awayRef 200237G010502
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 5 June 1990
18 m awayRef 1990371084800
Slight
Car crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 20 August 1998
47 m awayRef 199837G003007
Serious
Skoda 120 crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 23 August 1997
53 m awayRef 199737G001293
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 16 May 2003
53 m awayRef 200337G012744
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 11 February 1980
67 m awayRef 1980371025000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 201437EA85712 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.