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A120 crash in Braintree on 6 December 2001 at 17:36 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A120 in Braintree at 17:36 on Thursday 6 December 2001. The 44-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Dec 2001
Thursday, 17:36
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86816, longitude 0.58257, in the CM77 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3XR area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
20014200A0937
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
120
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 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
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 2000.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    34 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 44, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 20014200A0937 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 2001.