Unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM3 on 8 June 2016 at 16:45 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 16:45 on Wednesday 8 June 2016. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2016
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69796, longitude 0.58415, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bicknacre. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield, Chelmsford, CM3 4ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420073725
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- 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
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2015.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 11 June 2015
22 m awayRef 201542I173906
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Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 10 September 1997
41 m awayRef 19974200C0571
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 4 March 1995
108 m awayRef 19954200C0131
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 7 May 1988
123 m awayRef 19884200C0625
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 4 December 1999
126 m awayRef 19994200C0854
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 20 August 1986
144 m awayRef 19864200C0972
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2016420073725 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2016.