B1408 crash in Colchester on 28 November 1998 at 14:10 involving a Nissan 200
A Nissan 200 crashed on the B1408 in Colchester at 14:10 on Saturday 28 November 1998. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1998
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88568, longitude 0.82754, in the CO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19984200E0526
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1408
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2002.
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 13 May 2002
At the same spotRef 20024200E0221
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Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 9 November 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200E0454
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Ford Escort crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 13 October 1996
14 m awayRef 19964200E0409
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Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 20 February 2021
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Triumph crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 25 November 1995
22 m awayRef 19954200E0565
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Motorcycle crash on the B1408 in Colchester, 24 December 2006
22 m awayRef 200642I553712
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan 200)
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 19984200E0526 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1998.