M11 crash in Uttlesford on 7 January 1997 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the M11 in Uttlesford at 18:00 on Tuesday 7 January 1997. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 1997
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06401, longitude 0.18588, in the CB10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19974200A0010
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2010.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 6 May 2010
70 m awayRef 2010351057710
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in South Cambridgeshire, 1 October 2006
72 m awayRef 2006350437106
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 8 February 2019
118 m awayRef 2019350821672
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the M11 in South Cambridgeshire, 25 August 2020
121 m awayRef 2020350975206
Serious
Lorry crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 11 October 1984
126 m awayRef 19844200G0744
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Cambridgeshire, 27 April 1988
126 m awayRef 1988352086388
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 19974200A0010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 1997.