Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 25 December 1996 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 08:30 on Wednesday 25 December 1996. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1996
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95106, longitude 0.5234, in the CM7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200A0840
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 192 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 March 1982
192 m awayRef 1982420050187
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 May 1984
192 m awayRef 19844200C0521
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 December 2014
195 m awayRef 201442I436712
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 7 August 2006
300 m awayRef 200642I308108
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 16 July 1979
336 m awayRef 1979420050543
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 May 1992
338 m awayRef 19924200C0449
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 19964200A0840 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 1996.