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A120 crash in Braintree on 25 December 1997 at 12:15 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on the A120 in Braintree at 12:15 on Thursday 25 December 1997. The 62-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Dec 1997
Thursday, 12:15
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87951, longitude 0.60846, in the CM77 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19974200A0896
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex
Highway authority
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
120
Road type
Single carriageway
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

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    62 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 62, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 19974200A0896 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.