Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 3 December 1982 at 16:14 involving a car

A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 16:14 on Friday 3 December 1982. The 21-year-old male driver of the car, the 38-year-old male driver of the van and a 36-year-old male passenger in the van were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
3 Dec 1982
Friday, 16:14
Vehicles
2
Car and van
Casualties
3
3 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70327, longitude 0.67879, in the CM9 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Maldon

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982420031021
Council area
Maldon
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1997.

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
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 38, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)

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 1982420031021 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 1982.