Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 25 November 2004 at 00:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 00:15 on Thursday 25 November 2004. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2004
- Thursday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84211, longitude 0.57701, in the CM8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hatfield Peverel & Terling, Braintree, CM8 1RG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200A0739
- 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
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 January 2001
At the same spotRef 20014200A0022
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 February 2003
At the same spotRef 20034200A0142
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 18 December 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200A0933
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 25 August 1992
At the same spotRef 19924200C0821
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 17 February 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200A0105
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 31 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200842I476012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 20044200A0739 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.