Serious unclassified road crash in Babergh IP7 on 1 August 2020 at 10:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 10:30 on Saturday 1 August 2020. The 53-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Aug 2020
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04408, longitude 0.95518, 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
- 2020370975447
- 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
- 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2002.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 14 October 2002
12 m awayRef 200237B014912
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 24 August 1998
12 m awayRef 199837B003991
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 11 April 2008
13 m awayRef 200837B030624
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 18 May 2023
13 m awayRef 2023371340390
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 12 January 2006
25 m awayRef 200637B024283
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Babergh, 6 January 2009
29 m awayRef 200937B041562
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2020370975447 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.