A121 crash in Epping Forest on 7 October 1983 at 17:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A121 in Epping Forest at 17:00 on Friday 7 October 1983. The 31-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 1983
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63404, longitude 0.03812, in the IG9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010JB0584
- 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
- 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
- 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 9 January 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 9 January 2004
At the same spotRef 20044200G0032
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 14 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199201JB00287
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 30 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199401JO00144
Serious
Car crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 23 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501JB00427
Slight
Car crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 11 February 1986
14 m awayRef 198601JB00090
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 15 February 2002
14 m awayRef 20024200G0122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1983010JB0584 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.