A14 crash in Babergh on 22 August 2024 at 20:37 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A14 in Babergh at 20:37 on Thursday 22 August 2024. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2024
- Thursday, 20:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03027, longitude 1.11955, in the IP8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024371489396
- 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
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Babergh, 12 April 1989
15 m awayRef 1989371054100
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A14 in Babergh, 2 February 2019
20 m awayRef 2019370820202
Serious
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on the A14 in Babergh, 9 February 2022
20 m awayRef 2022371154517
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in Babergh, 16 January 1987
39 m awayRef 1987371004900
Slight
Scania crash on the A14 in Babergh, 14 January 2025
43 m awayRef 2025371541554
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A14 in Babergh, 25 January 2016
61 m awayRef 2016370046566
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2024371489396 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.