A112 crash in Epping Forest on 25 November 1998 at 20:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A112 in Epping Forest at 20:25 on Wednesday 25 November 1998. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 1998
- Wednesday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67222, longitude 0.00382, in the EN9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801JB00851
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2010.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 26 September 2010
10 m awayRef 201042I309409
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 15 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601JO00435
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 16 September 2016
14 m awayRef 2016420106485
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 8 July 1997
14 m awayRef 199701JB00552
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 4 May 1991
22 m awayRef 199101JB00173
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A112 in Epping Forest, 28 November 2019
35 m awayRef 2019420903872
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199801JB00851 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.