A12 crash in Braintree on 2 May 2005 at 06:45 involving a Mazda MX-5
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2005
- Monday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82489, longitude 0.68342, in the CO5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kelvedon & Feering, Braintree, CO5 9BP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A024705
- 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
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Braintree, 31 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200842I283307
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the A12 in Braintree, 20 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025421656680
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Ford Transit Connect crash on the A12 in Braintree, 14 September 2007
14 m awayRef 200742I380209
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Ford Transit crash on the A12 in Braintree, 29 May 1994
14 m awayRef 19944200A0119
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A12 in Braintree, 27 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200542A076012
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A12 in Braintree, 18 October 1997
14 m awayRef 19974200A0668
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 200542A024705 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 2005.