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Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 1 October 1992 at 21:30 involving a Ford Escort

A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 21:30 on Thursday 1 October 1992. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Oct 1992
Thursday, 21:30
Vehicles
1
Ford Escort
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90025, longitude 0.61373, in the CM77 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19924200C0958
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, lighting unknown
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 184 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Telegraph or electricity pole
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years
    Engine capacity
    1,298 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    12 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)

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 19924200C0958 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 1992.