Serious unclassified road crash in Tendring CO15 on 15 December 1998 at 20:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 20:05 on Tuesday 15 December 1998. The 13-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80872, longitude 1.15527, in the CO15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200D0489
- Council area
- Tendring
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2002.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 12 August 2002
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Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 3 June 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200D0190
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 15 July 1999
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 19984200D0489 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1998.