A137 crash in Babergh on 29 December 2014 at 16:40 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A137 in Babergh at 16:40 on Monday 29 December 2014. The 26-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2014
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01339, longitude 1.12949, in the IP9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA86788
- 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
- 137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 1995.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A137 in Babergh, 18 November 1995
18 m awayRef 1995371612720
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A137 in Babergh, 11 July 2001
26 m awayRef 200137G008819
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A137 in Babergh, 28 November 2012
32 m awayRef 2012370495912
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A137 in Babergh, 3 December 1992
32 m awayRef 1992371601510
Serious
Honda CBR125R crash on the A137 in Babergh, 10 December 2016
33 m awayRef 2016370142395
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A137 in Babergh, 13 June 2000
36 m awayRef 200037G006419
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201437EA86788 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.