A12 crash in Colchester on 5 July 2013 at 15:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A12 in Colchester at 15:40 on Friday 5 July 2013. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2013
- Friday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83787, longitude 0.7222, in the CO5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I199907
- 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
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2007.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A12 in Colchester, 24 July 2007
3 m awayRef 200742I410107
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A12 in Colchester, 17 February 2008
8 m awayRef 200842I059102
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Colchester, 26 October 2011
18 m awayRef 201142I349110
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A12 in Colchester, 20 February 2008
18 m awayRef 200842I063502
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A12 in Colchester, 24 November 2017
19 m awayRef 2017420242981
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in Braintree, 27 March 1994
20 m awayRef 19944200C0296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201342I199907 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.