C road crash in Babergh CO10 on 3 December 2015 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Seat Alhambra taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in Babergh at 21:30 on Thursday 3 December 2015. A 66-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Seat Alhambra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04321, longitude 0.73594, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201537EA96607
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Babergh, 27 January 2011
15 m awayRef 2011370040711
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 18 June 1985
26 m awayRef 1985373104700
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 12 September 1985
37 m awayRef 1985373154500
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 14 May 1983
38 m awayRef 1983373079600
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 3 March 1984
48 m awayRef 1984373042400
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Babergh, 13 January 1994
71 m awayRef 1994373500190
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Alhambra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201537EA96607 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 2015.