B1033 crash in Colchester on 2 December 2000 at 03:30 involving a Nissan Serena taxi
A Nissan Serena taxi crashed on the B1033 in Colchester at 03:30 on Saturday 2 December 2000. A 24-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Serena
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83296, longitude 0.78479, 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
- 20004200E0655
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1033
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 27 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200842I473212
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 15 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200842I177405
Slight
Leyland crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 3 January 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200E0001
Slight
Volvo crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 16 July 1998
10 m awayRef 19984200E0305
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 9 September 2000
10 m awayRef 20004200E0454
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1022 in Colchester, 15 April 1994
10 m awayRef 19944200E0295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Serena
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Serena)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Serena)
- 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 20004200E0655 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.