Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CO6 on 22 July 2021 at 22:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 22:10 on Thursday 22 July 2021. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 2021
- Thursday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91669, longitude 0.68672, in the CO6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021421069252
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 311 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2011.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 24 October 2011
311 m awayRef 201142I338810
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 28 November 1986
352 m awayRef 19864200C1477
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 August 2010
546 m awayRef 201042I241408
Slight
Car crash on the A604 in Braintree, 17 December 1988
582 m awayRef 19884200C1687
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1024 in Braintree, 28 October 1979
642 m awayRef 1979420050859
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 March 1998
670 m awayRef 19984200A0135
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2021421069252 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.