Serious unclassified road crash in Tendring CO7 on 17 August 2015 at 12:28 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 12:28 on Monday 17 August 2015. A 14-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Fiat Punto was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Aug 2015
- Monday, 12:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85387, longitude 0.99772, in the CO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alresford.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201542I256608
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 9 November 1979
45 m awayRef 1979420040455
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 14 August 1983
111 m awayRef 19834200E0683
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 13 November 1988
111 m awayRef 19884200E1146
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 20 June 1980
111 m awayRef 1980420040225
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 21 February 2000
131 m awayRef 20004200D0065
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 24 December 1998
131 m awayRef 19984200D0513
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201542I256608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2015.