A604 crash in Colchester on 2 December 1996 at 17:41 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro hit a pedestrian on the A604 in Colchester at 17:41 on Monday 2 December 1996. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 1996
- Monday, 17:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88967, longitude 0.85221, in the CO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19964200E0503
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 604
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2016.
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Rover Metro crash on the A1124 in Colchester, 23 October 2004
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
- 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 19964200E0503 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.