Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 4 May 2021 at 17:20 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 17:20 on Tuesday 4 May 2021. A 13-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2021
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trafic and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86973, longitude 0.5533, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree South, Braintree, CM7 1AQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021421052947
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 August 2013
2 m awayRef 201342I225608
Slight
Renault Espace crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 August 2002
12 m awayRef 20024200A0535
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 6 July 1993
12 m awayRef 19934200C0577
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 September 2023
15 m awayRef 2023421355581
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 July 1980
20 m awayRef 1980420050522
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 November 1979
20 m awayRef 1979420050948
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- 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
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2021421052947 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.