Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 5 September 2005 at 10:05 involving a Rover 75
A car and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 10:05 on Monday 5 September 2005. The 69-year-old male driver of the Rover 75 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2005
- Monday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97827, longitude 0.48069, in the CM7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A048909
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 75)
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 200542A048909 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.