Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 4 February 1998 at 17:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 17:10 on Wednesday 4 February 1998. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87529, longitude 0.55068, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200A0095
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1992.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 March 2011
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Serious
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Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 2 March 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 19984200A0095 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 1998.