A1071 crash in Babergh on 20 June 2024 at 08:55 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A1071 in Babergh at 08:55 on Thursday 20 June 2024. The 63-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2024
- Thursday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02558, longitude 0.85547, in the CO10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024371466052
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1071
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 10 October 1986
1 m awayRef 1986373173000
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 29 October 2011
1 m awayRef 2011370434611
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 20 September 2005
9 m awayRef 200537B023346
Serious
Van crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 21 November 1984
29 m awayRef 1984373218200
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 28 February 1999
30 m awayRef 199937B005307
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 10 January 1990
51 m awayRef 1990373004200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024371466052 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 2024.