B1025 crash in Colchester on 12 December 2000 at 23:35 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series crashed on the B1025 in Colchester at 23:35 on Tuesday 12 December 2000. The 50-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 7 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79935, longitude 0.91719, in the CO5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200E0639
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1025
- 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
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 June 2019.
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 3 June 2019
13 m awayRef 2019420844566
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 10 August 1992
20 m awayRef 19924200E0690
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 15 April 2007
22 m awayRef 200742I145104
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 10 October 2010
36 m awayRef 201042I327810
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 13 March 2003
42 m awayRef 20034200E0112
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 8 September 2007
125 m awayRef 200742I361209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 7 Series)
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 20004200E0639 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2000.