Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 24 November 2004 at 17:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 17:40 on Wednesday 24 November 2004. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 2004
- Wednesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87625, longitude 0.55382, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3HY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200A0848
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 1 May 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200A0048
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 29 May 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200A0336
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 19 December 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200A0869
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 13 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201242I403812
Serious
Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 11 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022421142796
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 May 2003
10 m awayRef 20034200A0331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 20044200A0848 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.