A137 crash in Babergh on 30 August 2016 at 11:00 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A lorry and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the A137 in Babergh at 11:00 on Tuesday 30 August 2016. The 53-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9682, longitude 1.07709, in the CO11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brantham.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370108939
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A137 in Babergh, 14 November 2014
19 m awayRef 201437EA85486
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A137 in Babergh, 4 May 1994
19 m awayRef 1994371604100
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A137 in Babergh, 19 December 1997
32 m awayRef 199737G001911
Slight
Scooter crash on the A137 in Babergh, 1 May 1988
49 m awayRef 1988371067600
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A137 in Babergh, 1 July 1994
260 m awayRef 1994371607070
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A137 in Babergh, 23 November 2018
271 m awayRef 2018370346340
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,880 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016370108939 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 2016.