Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 7 December 2003 at 12:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 12:40 on Sunday 7 December 2003. A 64-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88392, longitude 0.56908, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3NN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200A0879
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 11 June 1984
92 m awayRef 19844200C0600
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 February 1980
92 m awayRef 1980420050115
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 April 1986
112 m awayRef 19864200C0377
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 13 June 1987
120 m awayRef 19874200C0634
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 January 1991
136 m awayRef 19914200C0060
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 September 1987
136 m awayRef 19874200C1147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 20034200A0879 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 2003.