B1256 crash in Braintree on 28 February 2011 at 11:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B1256 in Braintree at 11:00 on Monday 28 February 2011. The 27-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2011
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87615, longitude 0.5544, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I061302
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1256
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1998.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 4 September 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200A0578
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025421668685
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 29 July 2021
5 m awayRef 2021421071596
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 27 November 1991
10 m awayRef 19914200C1263
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 12 September 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200A0565
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 18 February 2008
20 m awayRef 200842I059702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201142I061302 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 2011.