A12 crash in Colchester on 13 December 2007 at 07:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A12 in Colchester at 07:00 on Thursday 13 December 2007. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88292, longitude 0.79457, in the CO6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marks Tey and Layer, Colchester, CO6 1YT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I514612
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Colchester, 12 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200842I459812
Serious
Mercedes 500 crash on the A12 in Colchester, 14 July 2003
10 m awayRef 20034200E0344
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A12 in Colchester, 23 November 2021
13 m awayRef 2021421113113
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A12 in Colchester, 25 February 2010
14 m awayRef 201042I065302
Serious
Ford crash on the A12 in Colchester, 12 July 1993
20 m awayRef 19934200E0543
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A12 in Colchester, 15 September 2003
22 m awayRef 20034200E0418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200742I514612 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.