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Serious A120 crash in Tendring on 4 March 1996 at 11:00 involving a lorry

A lorry and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A120 in Tendring at 11:00 on Monday 4 March 1996. The 19-year-old female driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Mar 1996
Monday, 11:00
Vehicles
2
Lorry and other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92745, longitude 1.21815, in the CO12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Tendring

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19964200D0102
Council area
Tendring
Police force
Essex
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
120
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
1352

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2000.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact

  • Vehicle 2: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 19, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)

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 19964200D0102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1996.