A1071 crash in Babergh on 14 July 2024 at 23:35 involving a Fiat Ducato
A car and a Fiat Ducato were involved in a crash on the A1071 in Babergh at 23:35 on Sunday 14 July 2024. The 22-year-old male driver of the Fiat Ducato was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2024
- Sunday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat Ducato
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03667, longitude 0.91203, 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
- 2024371470068
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1071
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 27 January 1994
9 m awayRef 1994373500400
Fatal
Volvo crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 4 December 1998
12 m awayRef 199837B004719
Slight
Car crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 15 March 1988
12 m awayRef 1988373049400
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 3 April 2009
52 m awayRef 200937B042480
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 30 September 2007
62 m awayRef 200737B028973
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 7 August 1987
69 m awayRef 1987373138200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Ducato
Other vehicle
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Ducato)
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 2024371470068 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.