A414 crash in Chelmsford on 26 May 2006 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A414 in Chelmsford at 18:30 on Friday 26 May 2006. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2006
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71637, longitude 0.58983, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Danbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Chelmsford, CM3 4QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200642C031805
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2005.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 5 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200542C024505
Serious
Car crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 1 June 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200C0332
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 4 June 1991
10 m awayRef 19914200C0489
Serious
BMW 2 Series crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 10 October 2022
12 m awayRef 2022421230903
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 20 May 2024
14 m awayRef 2024421452522
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 20 October 2008
14 m awayRef 200842I373410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200642C031805 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2006.