B1024 crash in Braintree on 21 December 2011 at 21:26 involving a Land Rover Range Rover
A Land Rover Range Rover and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B1024 in Braintree at 21:26 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. A 50-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Range Rover 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
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 21:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84687, longitude 0.72103, in the CO5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kelvedon & Feering, Braintree, CO5 9FB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I420712
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1024
- 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
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 December 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 30 December 1981
28 m awayRef 1981420031079
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 24 October 1995
54 m awayRef 19954200A0693
Slight
Triumph Bonneville crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 21 May 2017
64 m awayRef 2017420183875
Slight
Car crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 26 May 1980
82 m awayRef 1980420030398
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 8 February 2018
108 m awayRef 2018420266567
Slight
Nissan Vanette crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 5 July 1999
120 m awayRef 19994200A0450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)
- 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 201142I420712 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.