Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 31 May 1997 at 13:40 involving a Nissan Maxima
A car and a Nissan Maxima were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 13:40 on Saturday 31 May 1997. The 48-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 1997
- Saturday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Maxima
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64659, longitude 0.04533, in the IG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loughton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701JB00419
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Maxima
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,960 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199701JB00419 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1997.