A134 crash in Babergh on 18 September 2020 at 21:00 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Agila were involved in a crash on the A134 in Babergh at 21:00 on Friday 18 September 2020. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Agila was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2020
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04683, longitude 0.7461, in the CO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sudbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sudbury South East, Babergh, CO10 2YW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020370984998
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2002.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on the A134 in Babergh, 27 August 2002
4 m awayRef 200237B014539
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A134 in Babergh, 22 November 2001
4 m awayRef 200137B012400
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A134 in Babergh, 15 January 2025
6 m awayRef 2025371542625
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A134 in Babergh, 5 October 1998
7 m awayRef 199837B004266
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in Babergh, 30 December 1998
11 m awayRef 199837B004905
Slight
Volvo crash on the A134 in Babergh, 19 October 1999
12 m awayRef 199937B006747
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Agila)
- 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 2020370984998 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.