Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 1 February 2000 at 11:10 involving a Proton Persona Compact
A Proton Persona Compact crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 11:10 on Tuesday 1 February 2000. The 51-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2000
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Proton Persona Compact
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85194, longitude 0.62433, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silver End.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200A0072
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2023.
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 29 June 1990
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Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 July 2004
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Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 March 1997
106 m awayRef 19974200A0243
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 July 1999
136 m awayRef 19994200A0469
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 April 1984
172 m awayRef 19844200C0389
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Proton Persona Compact
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Persona Compact)
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 20004200A0072 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 2000.