A132 crash in Chelmsford on 10 March 2008 at 12:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A132 in Chelmsford at 12:30 on Monday 10 March 2008. The 23-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2008
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64783, longitude 0.59431, in the CM3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville, Chelmsford, CM3 5QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200842I089503
- 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
- 132
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 April 2018.
Serious
HGV crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 5 April 2018
14 m awayRef 2018420282426
Serious
Subaru crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 20 May 2013
19 m awayRef 201342I134005
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 18 July 1993
32 m awayRef 19934200C0645
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 9 June 2006
63 m awayRef 200642C034706
Serious
Car crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 29 September 1989
73 m awayRef 19894200C1267
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 25 July 2014
77 m awayRef 201442I242007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200842I089503 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 2008.