A414 crash in Maldon on 28 January 1998 at 10:10 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A414 in Maldon at 10:10 on Wednesday 28 January 1998. A 44-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 1998
- Wednesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73466, longitude 0.6789, in the CM9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maldon.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200C0059
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 August 2000.
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Serious
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At the same spotRef 19994200C0914
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 October 2018
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Slight
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 30 January 2020
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 19984200C0059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 1998.