Serious A1124 crash in Colchester on 6 February 1993 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1124 in Colchester at 16:50 on Saturday 6 February 1993. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1993
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8886, longitude 0.89618, in the CO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934200E0100
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1124
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 19934200E0100 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 1993.