B1070 crash in Babergh on 24 November 2017 at 13:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Mitsubishi were involved in a crash on the B1070 in Babergh at 13:00 on Friday 24 November 2017. The 77-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza and the 40-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2017
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Mitsubishi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.00737, longitude 0.98709, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017370249175
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 88 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 2011.
Serious
Hyundai Accent crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 25 July 2011
88 m awayRef 2011370296511
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 30 January 2005
195 m awayRef 200537G019372
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 31 January 2013
202 m awayRef 201337EA69240
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1070 in Babergh, 25 June 1981
209 m awayRef 1981371101900
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 2 June 1988
213 m awayRef 1988371088000
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 26 February 1994
217 m awayRef 1994371601670
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- 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
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi)
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 2017370249175 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 2017.