A131 crash in Braintree on 24 July 2016 at 11:30 involving a Mazda 3
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2016
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88439, longitude 0.58417, in the CM7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bocking Blackwater, Braintree, CM77 8AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420103664
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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 3 May 2005.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A131 in Braintree, 3 May 2005
11 m awayRef 200542A027706
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A131 in Braintree, 29 November 2025
41 m awayRef 2025421677421
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A131 in Braintree, 27 August 2021
46 m awayRef 2021421081661
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A131 in Braintree, 2 July 2013
73 m awayRef 201342I181807
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A131 in Braintree, 3 December 2023
118 m awayRef 2023421382117
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A131 in Braintree, 18 October 2018
119 m awayRef 2018420336794
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016420103664 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 2016.