A414 crash in Chelmsford on 14 July 2000 at 13:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A lorry and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A414 in Chelmsford at 13:30 on Friday 14 July 2000. The 55-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2000
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7188, longitude 0.56941, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Danbury.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200C0489
- 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
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 6 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024421460360
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 3 October 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200C0786
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 19 January 1993
10 m awayRef 19934200C0053
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 22 October 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200C0804
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 21 September 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200C0609
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 20 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200642I373909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 20004200C0489 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.