Unclassified road crash in Braintree CO6 on 6 March 1997 at 18:45 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 18:45 on Thursday 6 March 1997. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93547, longitude 0.68736, in the CO6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200A0189
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2003.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 22 October 1988
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Hillman Avenger crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 18 February 1990
152 m awayRef 19904200C0231
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 22 December 1987
165 m awayRef 19874200C1582
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 2 May 1981
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 19974200A0189 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 1997.