A12 crash in Braintree on 11 April 2000 at 16:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on the A12 in Braintree at 16:45 on Tuesday 11 April 2000. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2000
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77867, longitude 0.60326, in the CM3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200A0230
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1137
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 18 November 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Braintree, 18 November 1992
At the same spotRef 19924200C1133
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A12 in Braintree, 11 December 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200A0608
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A12 in Braintree, 10 August 1999
At the same spotRef 19994200A0514
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A12 in Braintree, 24 May 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200A0334
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A12 in Braintree, 4 September 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200C0793
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in Braintree, 11 August 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200A0485
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 20004200A0230 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.