B1018 crash in Braintree on 6 November 2007 at 06:18 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the B1018 in Braintree at 06:18 on Tuesday 6 November 2007. The 27-year-old male driver of the Mitsubishi Shogun, the 20-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series and a 36-year-old male passenger in the Rover 200 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2007
- Tuesday, 06:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81209, longitude 0.6371, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Witham North, Braintree, CM8 2HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I454411
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1018
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2005.
Slight
Van crash on the B1018 in Braintree, 29 March 2005
14 m awayRef 200542A015603
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1018 in Braintree, 20 December 1997
14 m awayRef 19974200A0891
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1018 in Braintree, 26 December 2010
14 m awayRef 201042I421612
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1018 in Braintree, 1 February 1982
20 m awayRef 1982420030080
Serious
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 August 1982
20 m awayRef 1982420030621
Slight
Van crash on the B1018 in Braintree, 1 April 1987
20 m awayRef 19874200C0328
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 200742I454411 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.