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Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CO6 on 21 May 1979 at 01:00 involving a van

A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 01:00 on Monday 21 May 1979. The 21-year-old male driver of the van was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 May 1979
Monday, 01:00
Vehicles
2
Van and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93036, longitude 0.69811, in the CO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Earls Colne.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979420050377
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2007.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)

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 1979420050377 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1979.