Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 23 October 2013 at 16:10 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 16:10 on Wednesday 23 October 2013. The 23-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80814, longitude 0.6515, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Witham Central, Braintree, CM8 3DT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201342I328510
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1389
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2001.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 16 January 2001
7 m awayRef 20014200A0050
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 4 October 1994
7 m awayRef 19944200A0415
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 8 October 1997
7 m awayRef 19974200A0653
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 9 January 1996
7 m awayRef 19964200A0006
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 3 June 1995
7 m awayRef 19954200A0344
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1389 in Braintree, 7 February 2005
9 m awayRef 200542A005802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 23, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201342I328510 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.