Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 30 June 1984 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 11:30 on Saturday 30 June 1984. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 1984
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80424, longitude 0.62819, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19844200C0680
- 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
- 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 25 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 25 May 1984
At the same spotRef 19844200C0523
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19844200C0680 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 1984.