A12 crash in Chelmsford on 21 June 1999 at 09:50 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A12 in Chelmsford at 09:50 on Monday 21 June 1999. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1999
- Monday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68808, longitude 0.45857, in the CM2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994200C0404
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 3 November 2001
36 m awayRef 20014200C0685
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 17 September 2025
40 m awayRef 2025421643110
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 26 December 2015
46 m awayRef 2015420036764
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 3 September 2002
61 m awayRef 20024200C0499
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 29 August 1993
63 m awayRef 19934200C0777
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 5 August 2004
85 m awayRef 20044200C0492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 19994200C0404 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 1999.