A1017 crash in Braintree on 22 November 2011 at 22:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A1017 in Braintree at 22:55 on Tuesday 22 November 2011. The 22-year-old female driver, a 27-year-old male passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2011
- Tuesday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99782, longitude 0.57516, in the CO9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I381111
- 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
- 1017
- 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
- 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
- 54%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 46%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1017 in Braintree, 22 September 2000
10 m awayRef 20004200A0690
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1017 in Braintree, 15 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201042I183606
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the A1017 in Braintree, 28 November 2001
10 m awayRef 20014200A0920
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A604 in Braintree, 23 May 1980
20 m awayRef 1980420050410
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A1017 in Braintree, 17 June 2007
28 m awayRef 200742I228506
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A604 in Braintree, 6 April 1997
50 m awayRef 19974200A0232
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201142I381111 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.