Unclassified road crash in Braintree CO5 on 4 December 2009 at 22:50 involving an MG ZT
An MG ZT crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 22:50 on Friday 4 December 2009. The 65-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2009
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83775, longitude 0.68361, in the CO5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200942I415212
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1996.
Slight
Fiat crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 30 December 1996
14 m awayRef 19964200A0853
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 May 2003
14 m awayRef 20034200A0318
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 4 December 1981
124 m awayRef 1981420031017
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 July 1990
248 m awayRef 19904200C0849
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 July 1980
289 m awayRef 1980420030539
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 17 March 1979
289 m awayRef 1979420030200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZT)
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 200942I415212 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 2009.