A134 crash in Colchester on 16 August 1989 at 08:25 involving a car
Two cars and a van were involved in a crash on the A134 in Colchester at 08:25 on Wednesday 16 August 1989. The 45-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1989
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91773, longitude 0.88933, in the CO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19894200E0850
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- 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, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 December 2007.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A134 in Colchester, 30 December 2007
50 m awayRef 200742I533712
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A134 in Colchester, 3 December 1998
67 m awayRef 19984200E0540
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A134 in Colchester, 22 November 2011
70 m awayRef 201142I382711
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A134 in Colchester, 19 November 1991
71 m awayRef 19914200E1059
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A134 in Colchester, 31 August 2025
78 m awayRef 2025421635510
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A134 in Colchester, 1 October 2019
79 m awayRef 2019420883151
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 19894200E0850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1989.