Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 17 October 2023 at 08:18 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 08:18 on Tuesday 17 October 2023. A 10-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 17 Oct 2023
- Tuesday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85163, longitude 0.62477, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silver End. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silver End & Cressing, Braintree, CM8 3RP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023421363663
- 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
- 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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 29 June 1990
47 m awayRef 19904200C0796
Slight
Proton Persona Compact crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 1 February 2000
52 m awayRef 20004200A0072
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 July 1999
85 m awayRef 19994200A0469
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 July 2004
115 m awayRef 20044200A0404
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 March 1997
158 m awayRef 19974200A0243
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 April 1984
223 m awayRef 19844200C0389
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2023421363663 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 2023.