B1018 crash in Chelmsford on 4 December 2000 at 06:40 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada crashed on the B1018 in Chelmsford at 06:40 on Monday 4 December 2000. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2000
- Monday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74811, longitude 0.66655, in the CM9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200C0801
- 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
- 1018
- 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
- 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 24 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 24 November 1996
At the same spotRef 19964200C0720
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 13 October 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200C0683
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 4 July 2025
11 m awayRef 2025421611794
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 8 November 1998
14 m awayRef 19984200C0743
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 2 August 2017
14 m awayRef 2017420206744
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 26 December 1993
20 m awayRef 19934200C1248
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
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 20004200C0801 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.