Serious A132 crash in Chelmsford on 11 December 1999 at 02:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A132 in Chelmsford at 02:30 on Saturday 11 December 1999. A 55-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 1999
- Saturday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64349, longitude 0.59131, in the SS11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994200C0907
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 132
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1996.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 13 December 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200C0766
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 18 February 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200C0127
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 24 September 1999
At the same spotRef 19994200C0661
Serious
Honda CG125B crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 8 September 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200C0566
Slight
Case IH crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 21 October 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200C0647
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 10 November 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200C0749
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 19994200C0907 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 1999.