A131 crash in Braintree on 17 March 2004 at 04:35 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A131 in Braintree at 04:35 on Wednesday 17 March 2004. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2004
- Wednesday, 04:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94284, longitude 0.62978, in the CO9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halstead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halstead St Andrew's, Braintree, CO9 2JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200A0170
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 2021.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A131 in Braintree, 1 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021421104801
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A131 in Braintree, 25 November 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200A0806
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A131 in Braintree, 25 November 1999
10 m awayRef 19994200A0812
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A131 in Braintree, 18 December 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200A0890
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A131 in Braintree, 9 February 2015
19 m awayRef 201542I040102
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 13 June 2023
19 m awayRef 2023421328160
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (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 20044200A0170 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.