A120 crash in Tendring on 24 December 1986 at 13:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A120 in Tendring at 13:00 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. The 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 13:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19864200E1294
Council area: Tendring
Police force: Essex

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 120
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 70 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: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
West
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
82 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
38 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 38, 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 19864200E1294 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1986.