Serious B1070 crash in Babergh on 23 December 2016 at 11:15 involving a Ford Galaxy
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04439, longitude 0.95367, in the IP7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hadleigh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hadleigh South, Babergh, IP7 5ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370144774
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 1995.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 26 May 1995
16 m awayRef 1995373502120
Slight
Car crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 14 December 1985
24 m awayRef 1985373222000
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 17 December 1991
26 m awayRef 1991373542700
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 14 March 2003
27 m awayRef 200337B016214
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 9 June 2007
28 m awayRef 200737B028136
Slight
Audi Q4 crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 16 October 2025
31 m awayRef 2025371655496
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016370144774 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.