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Unclassified road crash in Braintree CO9 on 11 November 1997 at 10:50 involving a BMW motorcycle

A BMW motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 10:50 on Tuesday 11 November 1997. The 31-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Nov 1997
Tuesday, 10:50
Vehicles
1
BMW
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02, longitude 0.52072, in the CO9 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974200A0749
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 163 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    780 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (BMW)

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 19974200A0749 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.