Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 20 July 2025 at 13:55 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 13:55 on Sunday 20 July 2025. A 51-year-old male 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
- 20 Jul 2025
- Sunday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87852, longitude 0.55775, in the CM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braintree. It is one of the crashes that make up the Braintree Central & Beckers Green, Braintree, CM7 3HY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421618583
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 34 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 May 2018.
Serious
Suzuki GSX 650 crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 5 May 2018
34 m awayRef 2018420290541
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 6 October 1997
36 m awayRef 19974200A0645
Slight
Car crash on the A120 in Braintree, 7 April 1979
48 m awayRef 1979420050244
Slight
Car crash on the A120 in Braintree, 3 August 1980
48 m awayRef 1980420050632
Serious
Car crash on the A120 in Braintree, 26 May 1988
48 m awayRef 19884200C0708
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 20 December 1982
48 m awayRef 1982420050985
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025421618583 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 2025.