Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 2 August 2018 at 11:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 11:30 on Thursday 2 August 2018. The 27-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85297, longitude 0.52824, in the CM77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Notley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Notley & Black Notley, Braintree, CM77 7AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Braintree
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018420315390
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1998.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1053 in Braintree, 25 April 1998
3 m awayRef 19984200A0239
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A131 in Braintree, 31 March 2003
3 m awayRef 20034200A0223
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 18 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018420345055
Serious
Honda CBR crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 February 2022
6 m awayRef 2022421149440
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A131 in Chelmsford, 17 April 1993
7 m awayRef 19934200C0334
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A131 in Braintree, 21 September 1995
7 m awayRef 19954200A0619
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018420315390 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.