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Serious unclassified road crash in Maldon CM0 on 9 December 1980 at 14:45

A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 14:45 on Tuesday 9 December 1980. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Dec 1980
Tuesday, 14:45
Vehicles
1
Other vehicle
Casualties
4
2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69156, longitude 0.79531, in the CM0 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Maldon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420031028
Council area
Maldon
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    47 years

Casualties (4)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 73, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 74, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 62, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

  • Casualty 4: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 47, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

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 1980420031028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 1980.