Unclassified road crash in Babergh CO8 on 30 September 2019 at 14:10 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender crashed on an unclassified road in Babergh at 14:10 on Monday 30 September 2019. All twelve casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2019
- Monday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 12
- 12 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98845, longitude 0.8075, in the CO8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019370911654
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (12)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 7: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 8: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 9: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 10: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 11: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 12: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019370911654 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 2019.