Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 24 December 2011 at 13:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 13:25 on Saturday 24 December 2011. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79315, longitude 0.6273, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Witham South, Braintree, CM8 1JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I424112
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 April 1995
10 m awayRef 19954200A0274
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 May 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200A0116
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 7 June 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200A0347
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 July 1982
36 m awayRef 1982420030527
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 August 1994
50 m awayRef 19944200A0307
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 30 November 2006
54 m awayRef 200642I520311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201142I424112 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.