Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 6 July 2011 at 19:20 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 19:20 on Wednesday 6 July 2011. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2011
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8031, longitude 0.62497, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I207207
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2002.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 August 2002
20 m awayRef 20024200A0528
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 January 2000
36 m awayRef 20004200A0063
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 16 September 1986
73 m awayRef 19864200C1141
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 July 1994
82 m awayRef 19944200A0252
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 May 1987
85 m awayRef 19874200C0466
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 3 June 2009
92 m awayRef 200942I178206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201142I207207 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.