A131 crash in Braintree on 18 December 2003 at 11:00 involving a Ford KA
Two Ford KA cars, a Volkswagen Bora and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A131 in Braintree at 11:00 on Thursday 18 December 2003. The 57-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2003
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford KA and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90549, longitude 0.5738, in the CM7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bocking North, Braintree, CM7 5NJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200A0884
- 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
- 131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2015.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A131 in Braintree, 26 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201542I344710
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A131 in Braintree, 6 December 2007
14 m awayRef 200742I510912
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A131 in Braintree, 14 December 2023
19 m awayRef 2023421390031
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A131 in Braintree, 5 August 2018
21 m awayRef 2018420316324
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 9 September 2017
28 m awayRef 2017420217980
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A131 in Braintree, 22 August 1993
28 m awayRef 19934200C0765
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 4: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20034200A0884 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.