Unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM4 on 15 January 1994 at 19:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volvo 360 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 19:15 on Saturday 15 January 1994. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 29-year-old male driver of the Volvo 360 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 1994
- Saturday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volvo 360
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68891, longitude 0.42096, in the CM4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944200C0050
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 27 September 2002
41 m awayRef 20024200C0568
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 24 December 1981
45 m awayRef 1981420031070
Slight
Seat Ateca crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 28 December 2022
80 m awayRef 2022421257606
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 4 September 1994
85 m awayRef 19944200C0703
Fatal
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 15 June 1998
125 m awayRef 19984200C0367
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1002 in Chelmsford, 7 April 1991
126 m awayRef 19914200C0291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 360
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 360)
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 19944200C0050 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 1994.