A104 crash in Epping Forest on 18 June 1997 at 19:00 involving a Volvo 345
A Volvo 345 and a car were involved in a crash on the A104 in Epping Forest at 19:00 on Wednesday 18 June 1997. The 23-year-old female driver of the Volvo 345 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
- 18 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo 345 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63906, longitude 0.03343, in the IG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701JB00487
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1069
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2006.
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 28 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200642G021202
Slight
Datsun Bluebird crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 7 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199101JB00139
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 30 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701JB00895
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 2 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701JB00249
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 9 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201242I208707
Serious
Car crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 29 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801JB00070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 345
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 345)
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 199701JB00487 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.