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B1027 crash in Colchester on 19 September 1992 at 02:50 involving a Rover Metro

A Rover Metro crashed on the B1027 in Colchester at 02:50 on Saturday 19 September 1992. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Sep 1992
Saturday, 02:50
Vehicles
1
Rover Metro
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8526, longitude 1.00816, in the CO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alresford.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19924200E0815
Council area
Colchester
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1027
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Metro

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    1,396 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 19924200E0815 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 1992.