B1008 crash in Chelmsford on 16 February 1998 at 11:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the B1008 in Chelmsford at 11:00 on Monday 16 February 1998. The 48-year-old female driver 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
- 16 Feb 1998
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7473, longitude 0.46697, in the CM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chelmsford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200C0090
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1008
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2016.
Serious
Volvo S60 crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 23 December 2016
5 m awayRef 2016420140204
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 16 November 2016
5 m awayRef 2016420126790
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 16 November 2018
5 m awayRef 2018420344714
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 4 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200542C024305
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 30 August 1980
20 m awayRef 1980420030718
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1008 in Chelmsford, 7 July 1997
20 m awayRef 19974200C0421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 19984200C0090 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 1998.