A131 crash in Braintree on 24 August 2012 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on the A131 in Braintree at 08:00 on Friday 24 August 2012. The 30-year-old female driver of the Nissan Primera was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 2012
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93585, longitude 0.62021, in the CO9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halstead Trinity, Braintree, CO9 1FP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I261908
- 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
- 131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 December 2002.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A131 in Braintree, 26 December 2002
At the same spotRef 20024200A0855
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A131 in Braintree, 19 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200942I234602
Slight
Opel crash on the A131 in Braintree, 28 August 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200A0528
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A131 in Braintree, 30 December 2004
At the same spotRef 20044200A0837
Slight
Car crash on the A131 in Braintree, 27 July 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200A0480
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A131 in Braintree, 29 March 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200A0221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
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 201242I261908 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 2012.