Unclassified road crash in Chelmsford CM1 on 19 November 1998 at 07:23 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford at 07:23 on Thursday 19 November 1998. A 55-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort and the 44-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 07:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76321, longitude 0.4674, in the CM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broomfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200C0774
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 7 October 1985
58 m awayRef 19854200C1127
Slight
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70 m awayRef 200942I442012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 30 September 1985
86 m awayRef 19854200C1102
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 31 May 1996
100 m awayRef 19964200C0337
Serious
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Chelmsford, 26 August 2009
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 19984200C0774 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.