A12 crash in Colchester on 15 January 2013 at 19:18 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera crashed on the A12 in Colchester at 19:18 on Tuesday 15 January 2013. The 52-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2013
- Tuesday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92452, longitude 0.93587, in the CO7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ardleigh & Little Bromley, Tendring, CO7 7QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I010901
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 12
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Colchester, 16 August 2007
21 m awayRef 200742I417008
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A12 in Tendring, 14 November 1996
21 m awayRef 19964200D0425
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 21 December 1992
31 m awayRef 19924200E1136
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A12 in Colchester, 29 November 2025
33 m awayRef 2025421675867
Slight
Car crash on the A1232 in Tendring, 31 August 1988
36 m awayRef 19884200E0854
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A12 in Colchester, 10 February 2010
39 m awayRef 201042I050202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 201342I010901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2013.