B1256 crash in Braintree on 8 April 2013 at 16:31 involving a Dennis bus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2013
- Monday, 16:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Dennis
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87679, longitude 0.55075, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3HY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I094904
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1256
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 February 1996.
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 23 February 1996
4 m awayRef 19964200A0131
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 December 2000
4 m awayRef 20004200A0928
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 19 May 1997
4 m awayRef 19974200A0309
Slight
Car crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 15 October 1998
4 m awayRef 19984200A0699
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 12 November 1994
4 m awayRef 19944200A0522
Serious
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B1256 in Braintree, 9 November 2003
6 m awayRef 20034200A0778
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dennis)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 57, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 201342I094904 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 2013.