Serious A12 crash in Chelmsford on 10 March 2003 at 15:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A12 in Chelmsford at 15:50 on Monday 10 March 2003. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 2003
- Monday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70461, longitude 0.51867, in the CM2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Baddow East, Chelmsford, CM2 7AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200C0146
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 130
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1999.
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 3 December 1999
At the same spotRef 19994200C0849
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 7 May 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200C0252
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 26 August 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200C0558
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 1 May 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200C0241
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 17 July 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200C0453
Serious
Car crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 15 June 1991
14 m awayRef 19914200C0522
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 20034200C0146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2003.