Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 4 November 2015 at 19:11 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 19:11 on Wednesday 4 November 2015. The 19-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2015
- Wednesday, 19:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85032, longitude 0.62042, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silver End. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silver End & Cressing, Braintree, CM8 3RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015420031479
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 January 1994
11 m awayRef 19944200C0106
Serious
Peugeot XR6 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 9 October 2005
11 m awayRef 200542A055010
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 December 1994
11 m awayRef 19944200A0648
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 December 1999
11 m awayRef 19994200A0910
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 11 April 1995
41 m awayRef 19954200A0240
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 December 2005
44 m awayRef 200542A072312
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
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 2015420031479 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 2015.