A131 crash in Braintree on 10 June 2011 at 18:20 involving a Proton Persona
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2011
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Proton Persona
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.9875, longitude 0.6828, in the CO9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I175906
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2022.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A131 in Braintree, 14 July 2022
11 m awayRef 2022421198708
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A131 in Braintree, 30 April 2025
16 m awayRef 2025421584140
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A131 in Braintree, 12 January 1994
30 m awayRef 19944200C0023
Slight
Honda CG125B crash on the A131 in Braintree, 26 May 1994
32 m awayRef 19944200A0127
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A131 in Braintree, 21 October 1994
32 m awayRef 19944200A0469
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A131 in Braintree, 7 August 1998
50 m awayRef 19984200A0515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Proton Persona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Persona)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Persona)
- 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 201142I175906 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.