A131 crash in Braintree on 24 July 2005 at 17:17 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A131 in Braintree at 17:17 on Sunday 24 July 2005. A 12-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2005
- Sunday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98852, longitude 0.68548, in the CO9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A037207
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1994.
Slight
Honda CB125TD crash on the A131 in Braintree, 6 February 1994
14 m awayRef 19944200C0140
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A131 in Braintree, 14 November 2003
14 m awayRef 20034200A0795
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A131 in Braintree, 8 March 2005
14 m awayRef 200542A012903
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A131 in Braintree, 15 December 2016
40 m awayRef 2016420137797
Slight
Car crash on the A131 in Braintree, 26 December 1984
41 m awayRef 19844200C1528
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A131 in Braintree, 31 January 1982
41 m awayRef 1982420050058
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
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
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200542A037207 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.