A104 crash in Epping Forest on 4 November 2000 at 00:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A104 in Epping Forest at 00:15 on Saturday 4 November 2000. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2000
- Saturday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64813, longitude 0.03646, in the IG10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200G1033
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 28 December 2000
10 m awayRef 20004200G1247
Slight
Van crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 29 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801JB00649
Slight
Car crash on the A14 in Epping Forest, 3 April 1986
14 m awayRef 198601JB00201
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 11 November 1987
14 m awayRef 198701JB00800
Serious
Tesla Model 3 crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 31 March 2025
14 m awayRef 2025421571879
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Epping Forest, 19 February 1990
30 m awayRef 199001JB00112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 20004200G1033 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2000.