B1408 crash in Colchester on 30 October 1993 at 03:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1408 in Colchester at 03:00 on Saturday 30 October 1993. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 1993
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88078, longitude 0.80326, in the CO6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Copford.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19934200E0852
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1408
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 21 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201042I052802
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 23 June 2018
70 m awayRef 2018420304133
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 27 November 1984
72 m awayRef 19844200E1074
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 21 September 1982
72 m awayRef 1982420050649
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 16 August 2006
73 m awayRef 200642I351008
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 5 August 1991
92 m awayRef 19914200E0690
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 19934200E0852 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 1993.