Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CO9 on 7 January 2007 at 16:00 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 16:00 on Sunday 7 January 2007. The 33-year-old female driver and a 3-year-old female passenger were seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 2007
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01919, longitude 0.62551, in the CO9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I002301
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 March 2025.
Fatal
Yamaha FZS crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 March 2025
7 m awayRef 2025421565015
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 13 June 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200A0443
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 December 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200A0794
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 22 May 2005
139 m awayRef 200542A028505
Serious
Fiat Fiorino crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 30 July 1996
481 m awayRef 19964200A0460
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 May 1993
601 m awayRef 19934200C0464
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- 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 200742I002301 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 2007.