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Fatal A120 crash in Braintree on 2 May 1980 at 10:35 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A120 in Braintree at 10:35 on Friday 2 May 1980. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
2 May 1980
Friday, 10:35
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87968, longitude 0.55122, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420050347
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
120
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Towing and articulation
    Articulated vehicle
    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1980420050347 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 1980.