Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 22 February 2021 at 09:57 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Peugeot 308 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 09:57 on Monday 22 February 2021. The 65-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 308 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
- 22 Feb 2021
- Monday, 09:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85922, longitude 0.53369, 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
- 2021421023098
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1053 in Braintree, 30 April 2011
19 m awayRef 201142I136204
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 November 2014
25 m awayRef 201442I395111
Slight
Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 November 2025
31 m awayRef 2025421674752
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A131 in Braintree, 26 September 1982
35 m awayRef 1982420050681
Slight
Car crash on the A131 in Braintree, 17 December 1979
35 m awayRef 1979420051050
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B1053 in Braintree, 5 December 1997
40 m awayRef 19974200A0899
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 308)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021421023098 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 2021.