Serious A12 crash in Colchester on 5 July 1986 at 12:10 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A12 in Colchester at 12:10 on Saturday 5 July 1986. A 23-year-old female passenger in vehicle 3 and a 28-year-old female passenger in vehicle 4 were seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 1986
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87984, longitude 0.78227, in the CO6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19864200E0595
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 serious injury crash on 16 September 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A12 in Colchester, 16 September 1987
At the same spotRef 19874200E0868
Slight
Car crash on the A120 in Colchester, 10 July 1988
At the same spotRef 19884200E0669
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A120 in Colchester, 2 May 2013
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Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 19864200E0595 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1986.