A12 crash in Braintree on 5 June 2017 at 14:02 involving a Fiat 500
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2017
- Monday, 14:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82478, longitude 0.68338, in the CO5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kelvedon & Feering, Braintree, CO5 9BP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017420187905
- 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
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1024
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A12 in Braintree, 27 December 2005
12 m awayRef 200542A076012
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A12 in Braintree, 14 September 2007
12 m awayRef 200742I380209
Slight
Van crash on the A12 in Braintree, 5 May 2006
14 m awayRef 200642A021805
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A12 in Braintree, 2 November 2013
14 m awayRef 201342I336111
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A12 in Braintree, 24 May 2017
18 m awayRef 2017420184990
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A12 in Braintree, 29 July 2019
18 m awayRef 2019420863340
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017420187905 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 2017.