Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 29 December 2011 at 15:15 involving a Citroen Xsara
A car and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 15:15 on Thursday 29 December 2011. The 46-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85512, longitude 0.56613, in the CM77 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201142I428812
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1995.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 6 October 1995
14 m awayRef 19954200A0657
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 7 February 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200A0144
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 September 1979
22 m awayRef 1979420050702
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 February 1986
22 m awayRef 19864200C0182
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 July 1983
22 m awayRef 19834200C0734
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 October 1985
22 m awayRef 19854200C1104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201142I428812 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.