Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO13 on 8 August 1999 at 21:08 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Tendring at 21:08 on Sunday 8 August 1999. A 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 1999
- Sunday, 21:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82623, longitude 1.19776, in the CO13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19994200D0281
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 2004.
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Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 29 December 2004
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 2 July 2000
58 m awayRef 20004200D0235
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 19994200D0281 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 1999.