A1168 crash in Epping Forest on 25 October 1982 at 18:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1168 in Epping Forest at 18:15 on Monday 25 October 1982. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1982
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64087, longitude 0.08438, in the IG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010JB0733
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1168
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1992.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A1168 in Epping Forest, 2 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201JB00411
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 8 November 1990
14 m awayRef 199001JB00524
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 21 December 2025
19 m awayRef 2025421689500
Serious
Toyota Camry crash on the M11 in Epping Forest, 10 February 1999
20 m awayRef 199901JB00116
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1168 in Epping Forest, 13 October 2013
22 m awayRef 201342I317810
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1168 in Epping Forest, 13 September 2018
22 m awayRef 2018420334276
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1982010JB0733 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1982.