Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM7 on 12 October 2025 at 13:27 involving a Mazda CX-30
A Mazda CX-30, a Honda motorcycle and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 13:27 on Sunday 12 October 2025. The 30-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2025
- Sunday, 13:27
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda CX-30 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.93008, longitude 0.45603, in the CM7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421653535
- 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
- 60 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2012.
Slight
Nissan Interstar crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 27 January 2012
10 m awayRef 201242I024101
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 January 1985
45 m awayRef 19854200C0061
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 23 January 1979
45 m awayRef 1979420050090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 20 November 1985
64 m awayRef 19854200C1385
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 19 January 2001
163 m awayRef 20014200A0061
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 12 June 1999
199 m awayRef 19994200A0366
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda CX-30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 3: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025421653535 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.