B1137 crash in Chelmsford on 14 December 1981 at 19:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1137 in Chelmsford at 19:30 on Monday 14 December 1981. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1981
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75957, longitude 0.53285, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981420031055
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 5 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 5 September 1986
At the same spotRef 19864200C1047
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 8 June 1996
71 m awayRef 19964200C0346
Slight
Car crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 9 July 1981
100 m awayRef 1981420030546
Serious
Car crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 14 December 1989
100 m awayRef 19894200C1618
Slight
Car crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 9 October 1982
100 m awayRef 1982420030844
Slight
Car crash on the B1137 in Chelmsford, 30 May 1987
100 m awayRef 19874200C0564
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981420031055 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 1981.