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Serious A604 crash in Braintree on 19 February 1987 at 15:55 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A604 in Braintree at 15:55 on Thursday 19 February 1987. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Feb 1987
Thursday, 15:55
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92477, longitude 0.7065, in the CO6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19874200C0163
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
604
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
1024

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 14 October 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 19874200C0163 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 1987.