A134 crash in Colchester on 20 October 2007 at 10:00 involving a Suzuki Jimny
A car and a Suzuki Jimny were involved in a crash on the A134 in Colchester at 10:00 on Saturday 20 October 2007. The 40-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Jimny was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki Jimny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89276, longitude 0.89344, in the CO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Colchester, CO1 1JQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I437310
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the A134 in Colchester, 17 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200942I050402
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A134 in Colchester, 31 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200642E003901
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A134 in Colchester, 14 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201242I068803
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A134 in Colchester, 22 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200742I530612
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A134 in Colchester, 27 January 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200E0051
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A134 in Colchester, 9 November 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200E0890
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Jimny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Jimny)
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 200742I437310 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2007.