A12 crash in Chelmsford on 10 May 2007 at 13:20 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A12 in Chelmsford at 13:20 on Thursday 10 May 2007. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2007
- Thursday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74595, longitude 0.51995, in the CM2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I178205
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 26 December 2009
14 m awayRef 200942I442912
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 20 November 2022
18 m awayRef 2022421244419
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 13 February 2009
22 m awayRef 200942I046602
Slight
Iveco Stralis crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 20 October 2025
28 m awayRef 2025421656892
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 6 July 2015
29 m awayRef 201542I195007
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 7 February 2009
32 m awayRef 200942I038802
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 200742I178205 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 2007.