Serious A120 crash in Colchester on 11 November 1996 at 08:13 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton hit a pedestrian on the A120 in Colchester at 08:13 on Monday 11 November 1996. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 1996
- Monday, 08:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8771, longitude 0.75711, in the CO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marks Tey.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200E0460
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19964200E0460 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 1996.