A414 crash in Chelmsford on 24 January 2024 at 16:58 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and an Isuzu Trucks Grafter van were involved in a crash on the A414 in Chelmsford at 16:58 on Wednesday 24 January 2024. The 37-year-old male driver of the Isuzu Trucks Grafter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2024
- Wednesday, 16:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Isuzu Trucks Grafter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71655, longitude 0.59059, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Danbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Chelmsford, CM3 4QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024421403632
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 30 April 2015
15 m awayRef 201542I148604
Slight
Bedford crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 2 August 1995
16 m awayRef 19954200C0472
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 17 March 1994
16 m awayRef 19944200C0272
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 2 October 1996
16 m awayRef 19964200C0592
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 30 March 1996
16 m awayRef 19964200C0215
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 4 August 1996
16 m awayRef 19964200C0461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Isuzu Trucks Grafter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Isuzu Trucks Grafter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024421403632 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2024.