Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 20 December 1998 at 11:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 11:25 on Sunday 20 December 1998. The 56-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1998
- Sunday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Honda CBR1100XX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80734, longitude 0.63055, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200A0872
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 September 1991
At the same spotRef 19914200C0903
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 22 November 1991
10 m awayRef 19914200C1118
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 January 2022
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 11 November 1994
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Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 29 July 2001
22 m awayRef 20014200A0584
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 22 April 1998
22 m awayRef 19984200A0234
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 19984200A0872 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.