Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 21 April 2018 at 00:26 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 00:26 on Saturday 21 April 2018. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2018
- Saturday, 00:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85979, longitude 0.59897, in the CM77 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silver End & Cressing, Braintree, CM77 8JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420286347
- Council area
- Braintree
- 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
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1991.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 10 September 1991
64 m awayRef 19914200C0879
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 December 1998
65 m awayRef 19984200A0893
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 February 2007
73 m awayRef 200742I080202
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 September 2007
101 m awayRef 200742I397909
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 26 September 1997
115 m awayRef 19974200A0620
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 6 August 1992
128 m awayRef 19924200C0768
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018420286347 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 2018.