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A12 crash in Colchester on 3 February 1994 at 12:38 involving a Mercedes lorry

A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A12 in Colchester at 12:38 on Thursday 3 February 1994. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a flooded dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Feb 1994
Thursday, 12:38
Vehicles
1
Mercedes
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89484, longitude 0.85414, in the CO3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Colchester

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19944200E0094
Council area
Colchester
Police force
Essex
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
12
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Flood over 3cm deep

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2011.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Mercedes

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 37, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)

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 19944200E0094 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 1994.