Unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM2 on 27 December 2012 at 11:08 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 11:08 on Thursday 27 December 2012. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71831, longitude 0.50466, in the CM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chelmsford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Baddow East, Chelmsford, CM2 7BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201242I415212
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 31 July 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200C0460
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 6 January 1993
14 m awayRef 19934200C0037
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 24 April 2019
14 m awayRef 2019420833888
Slight
Bentley Continental crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 1 September 2021
16 m awayRef 2021421082852
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 9 August 2015
17 m awayRef 201542I249608
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 17 September 1994
20 m awayRef 19944200C0737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201242I415212 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2012.