A134 crash in Babergh on 9 December 2014 at 18:30 involving a Ford Transit lorry
A Ford Transit lorry and a Peugeot 407 were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 18:30 on Tuesday 9 December 2014. The 33-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 407 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Peugeot 407
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03868, longitude 0.74138, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sudbury North West, Babergh, CO10 1RA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201437EA88053
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 August 2017.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A131 in Babergh, 24 August 2017
8 m awayRef 2017370225775
Fatal
Car crash on the A131 in Babergh, 21 April 1986
11 m awayRef 1986373066300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A134 in Babergh, 5 February 1981
20 m awayRef 1981373019600
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A134 in Babergh, 4 November 2005
25 m awayRef 200537B023703
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A131 in Babergh, 21 October 2013
28 m awayRef 201337EA75125
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A134 in Babergh, 22 March 1982
43 m awayRef 1982373050700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 407
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 407)
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 201437EA88053 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.