Serious B1058 crash in Braintree on 7 February 2004 at 03:00 involving a Renault 19
A Renault 19 crashed on the B1058 in Braintree at 03:00 on Saturday 7 February 2004. The 22-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Feb 2004
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 19
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99739, longitude 0.62715, in the CO9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200A0091
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1058
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a fatal crash on 7 September 1990.
Fatal
Rover SD1 crash on the B1058 in Braintree, 7 September 1990
54 m awayRef 19904200C1071
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B1058 in Braintree, 22 October 2006
67 m awayRef 200642I429710
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 30 July 2020
138 m awayRef 2020420970188
Slight
Car crash on the B1058 in Braintree, 4 January 1991
192 m awayRef 19914200C0024
Slight
Car crash on the B1058 in Braintree, 24 December 1989
251 m awayRef 19894200C1695
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 16 September 1999
282 m awayRef 19994200A0605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,764 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 19)
- 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 20044200A0091 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 2004.