A120 crash in Colchester on 8 May 2013 at 15:40 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry hit a pedestrian on the A120 in Colchester at 15:40 on Wednesday 8 May 2013. A 38-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2013
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87756, longitude 0.76663, in the CO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marks Tey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marks Tey and Layer, Colchester, CO6 1XB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I125205
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2016.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A120 in Colchester, 8 July 2016
13 m awayRef 2016420083930
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A120 in Colchester, 30 April 2025
30 m awayRef 2025421583847
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A120 in Colchester, 8 December 1983
32 m awayRef 19834200E1101
Fatal
Car crash on the A12 in Colchester, 29 August 1988
32 m awayRef 19884200E0845
Slight
Car crash on the A120 in Colchester, 4 October 1987
32 m awayRef 19874200E0938
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A120 in Colchester, 29 July 1991
32 m awayRef 19914200E0640
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201342I125205 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.