Unclassified road crash in Braintree CO10 on 8 December 2021 at 11:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Braintree at 11:30 on Wednesday 8 December 2021. The 26-year-old female driver 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
- 8 Dec 2021
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07173, longitude 0.58012, in the CO10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021421118917
- 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
- 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, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1991.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 January 1991
38 m awayRef 19914200C0097
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 8 June 1987
81 m awayRef 19874200C0604
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 January 1986
179 m awayRef 19864200C0114
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 September 1981
305 m awayRef 1981373166000
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in West Suffolk, 25 December 1993
329 m awayRef 1993373506160
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 14 July 2001
377 m awayRef 20014200A0629
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021421118917 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.