Unclassified road crash in Braintree CB9 on 7 December 2011 at 19:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 19:30 on Wednesday 7 December 2011. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04386, longitude 0.44889, in the CB9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I406612
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2007.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B1057 in Braintree, 22 May 2007
32 m awayRef 200742I199305
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1054 in Braintree, 14 July 1985
100 m awayRef 19854200C0729
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the B1057 in Braintree, 18 March 1990
100 m awayRef 19904200C0358
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B1057 in Braintree, 30 January 2003
100 m awayRef 20034200A0138
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1057 in Braintree, 9 October 2011
120 m awayRef 201142I325410
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B1057 in Braintree, 15 May 1992
161 m awayRef 19924200C0455
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 201142I406612 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.