A121 crash in Epping Forest on 6 March 1983 at 15:15 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A121 in Epping Forest at 15:15 on Sunday 6 March 1983. The 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 1983
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66973, longitude 0.06416, 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
- 1983010JB0139
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1992.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 5 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199201JB00254
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 7 February 1986
20 m awayRef 198601JB00085
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 20 June 1997
20 m awayRef 199701JB00486
Serious
Honda crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 30 March 1998
22 m awayRef 199801JB00222
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 31 December 2015
25 m awayRef 2015420037053
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 9 January 2019
46 m awayRef 2019420806624
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 1983010JB0139 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 1983.