A131 crash in Braintree on 26 May 1994 at 08:58 involving a Honda CG125B motorcycle
A Honda CG125B motorcycle and a Peugeot 205 were involved in a crash on the A131 in Braintree at 08:58 on Thursday 26 May 1994. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda CG125B motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1994
- Thursday, 08:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CG125B and Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98782, longitude 0.68292, in the CO9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944200A0127
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A131 in Braintree, 21 October 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200A0469
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A131 in Braintree, 12 January 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200C0023
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A131 in Braintree, 30 April 2025
17 m awayRef 2025421584140
Slight
Proton Persona crash on the A131 in Braintree, 10 June 2011
32 m awayRef 201142I175906
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the A131 in Braintree, 2 April 1996
36 m awayRef 19964200A0207
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A131 in Braintree, 14 July 2022
43 m awayRef 2022421198708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CG125B
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda CG125B)
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 19944200A0127 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 1994.