Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 24 December 2005 at 02:13 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 02:13 on Saturday 24 December 2005. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 02:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9325, longitude 0.53505, in the CM7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A074412
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 August 1995.
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 7 August 1995
10 m awayRef 19954200A0501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 May 1988
63 m awayRef 19884200C0688
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 July 1981
89 m awayRef 1981420050526
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 November 1988
134 m awayRef 19884200C1447
Serious
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153 m awayRef 200742I099703
Slight
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156 m awayRef 2017420240200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200542A074412 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.