Unclassified road crash in Babergh IP7 on 28 February 2020 at 07:20 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt crashed on an unclassified road in Babergh at 07:20 on Friday 28 February 2020. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2020
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13218, longitude 0.87875, 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
- 2020370946473
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Raining, 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 1 September 1986
29 m awayRef 1986373148400
Slight
Car crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 3 December 1986
137 m awayRef 19864200E1202
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 7 April 1982
176 m awayRef 1982373060500
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 20 March 1992
719 m awayRef 1992373323800
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Babergh, 1 June 1997
813 m awayRef 199737B001137
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Babergh, 28 September 1998
858 m awayRef 199837B004234
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2020370946473 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.