A133 crash in Colchester on 31 December 2016 at 06:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A133 in Colchester at 06:20 on Saturday 31 December 2016. The 60-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89475, longitude 0.88065, in the CO3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lexden and Braiswick, Colchester, CO3 3RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016420141187
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 133
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2024.
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A133 in Colchester, 27 April 2024
39 m awayRef 2024421437241
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A133 in Colchester, 8 November 2019
44 m awayRef 2019420896800
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A133 in Colchester, 13 November 2016
59 m awayRef 2016420129082
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A604 in Colchester, 25 October 1996
71 m awayRef 19964200E0425
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A133 in Colchester, 23 January 2006
71 m awayRef 200642E001701
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A604 in Colchester, 6 May 1995
89 m awayRef 19954200E0197
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2016420141187 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2016.