Serious A12 crash in Chelmsford on 3 March 1995 at 11:52 involving a car
A car crashed on the A12 in Chelmsford at 11:52 on Friday 3 March 1995. The 71-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Mar 1995
- Friday, 11:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7652, longitude 0.54693, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19954200C0133
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2006.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 23 February 2006
14 m awayRef 200642C011702
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 20 December 2009
14 m awayRef 200942I437512
Serious
Mercedes Gle Class crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 28 October 2024
19 m awayRef 2024421509614
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 6 April 2022
25 m awayRef 2022421163403
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 27 January 2023
27 m awayRef 2023421268821
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 5 June 2025
37 m awayRef 2025421599046
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19954200C0133 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 1995.