A12 crash in Colchester on 11 April 1994 at 06:40 involving an ERF lorry
An ERF lorry crashed on the A12 in Colchester at 06:40 on Monday 11 April 1994. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 1994
- Monday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- ERF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89698, longitude 0.85878, 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
- 19944200E0278
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in Colchester, 17 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200542E056312
Slight
Toyota crash on the A12 in Colchester, 17 October 2025
17 m awayRef 2025421655772
Slight
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A12 in Colchester, 10 June 2000
22 m awayRef 20004200E0296
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the A12 in Colchester, 27 March 1992
32 m awayRef 19924200E0253
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A12 in Colchester, 5 November 2019
41 m awayRef 2019420895543
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A12 in Colchester, 28 October 2016
43 m awayRef 2016420120603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: ERF
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (ERF)
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 19944200E0278 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.