Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 6 December 1998 at 01:30 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 01:30 on Sunday 6 December 1998. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 1998
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65434, longitude 0.79099, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200C0839
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 29 December 1979
64 m awayRef 1979420031104
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 July 1988
155 m awayRef 19884200C0907
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 July 2025
175 m awayRef 2025421612279
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 14 August 2001
182 m awayRef 20014200C0483
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 5 December 2000
182 m awayRef 20004200C0802
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 30 December 1997
184 m awayRef 19974200C0883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- 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 19984200C0839 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.