A121 crash in Epping Forest on 18 March 1998 at 06:25 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 crashed on the A121 in Epping Forest at 06:25 on Wednesday 18 March 1998. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 1998
- Wednesday, 06:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 911
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63546, longitude 0.03919, 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
- 199801JB00187
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2010.
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Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 26 January 2010
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 6 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201142I068003
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Audi Q5 crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 18 May 2012
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Car crash on the A121 in Epping Forest, 29 April 2008
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 11 December 2011
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 12 January 2013
7 m awayRef 201342I009101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol and LPG
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
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 199801JB00187 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 1998.