M25 crash in Brentwood on 14 February 1994 at 09:45 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina and a Citroen BX were involved in a crash on the M25 in Brentwood at 09:45 on Monday 14 February 1994. The 44-year-old female driver of the Citroen BX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1994
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Cortina and Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65115, longitude 0.19631, in the RM4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Brentwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19944200F0124
- Council area
- Brentwood
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 5 October 2023
27 m awayRef 2023421359903
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 16 July 2025
27 m awayRef 2025421616814
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 27 September 1999
28 m awayRef 19994200G0683
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 19 May 2002
36 m awayRef 20024200G0429
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 30 June 1989
41 m awayRef 19894200F0572
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 22 August 1989
41 m awayRef 19894200G0763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen BX)
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 19944200F0124 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brentwood road accident statistics for 1994.