B1418 crash in Chelmsford on 28 January 2000 at 22:05 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B1418 in Chelmsford at 22:05 on Friday 28 January 2000. A 33-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2000
- Friday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65678, longitude 0.60031, in the CM3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200C0083
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1418
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 April 2000.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 24 April 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200C0301
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 15 April 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200C0239
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 18 October 1994
At the same spotRef 19944200C0806
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 9 October 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200C0784
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 7 March 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200C0150
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B1418 in Chelmsford, 5 July 1997
14 m awayRef 19974200C0412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 20004200C0083 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 2000.