Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 3 December 1998 at 17:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 17:25 on Thursday 3 December 1998. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6576, longitude 0.01705, in the IG10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801JB00864
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2001.
Slight
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 22 August 2012
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 25 March 1992
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Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 24 June 1994
220 m awayRef 199401JO00219
Serious
Yamaha WR crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 30 April 2025
239 m awayRef 2025421585474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 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 199801JB00864 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.