Serious B1508 crash in Babergh on 6 February 2020 at 12:20 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the B1508 in Babergh at 12:20 on Thursday 6 February 2020. A 58-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Agila was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 2020
- Thursday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Agila and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03775, longitude 0.73421, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020370940600
- 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
- 1508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 23 October 1982
8 m awayRef 1982373194000
Serious
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 8 May 1984
13 m awayRef 1984373077600
Slight
Car crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 16 April 1980
21 m awayRef 1980373066000
Slight
Leyland National crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 2 June 1995
22 m awayRef 1995373502240
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 29 November 2010
23 m awayRef 201037B046341
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1508 in Babergh, 6 November 2004
35 m awayRef 200437B020810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Serious injury band
- Less 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 2020370940600 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 2020.