Unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM3 on 17 November 1993 at 23:20 involving a Ford Capri
A Ford Capri crashed on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 23:20 on Wednesday 17 November 1993. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 1993
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66034, longitude 0.58819, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934200C1091
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 1997.
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 3 January 2000
42 m awayRef 20004200C0002
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 16 February 1999
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 17 November 1993
42 m awayRef 19934200C1075
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 22 September 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
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 19934200C1091 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 1993.