A414 crash in Epping Forest on 21 December 2000 at 22:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A414 in Epping Forest at 22:30 on Thursday 21 December 2000. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71271, longitude 0.23856, in the CM5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200G1210
- 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
- 414
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1999.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 30 September 1999
10 m awayRef 19994200G0702
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 30 May 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200G0366
Slight
BMW M4 crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 11 May 2019
22 m awayRef 2019420838349
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 20 January 2006
22 m awayRef 200642G003901
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 25 February 1998
41 m awayRef 19984200G0137
Serious
Car crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 30 April 1982
58 m awayRef 1982420070285
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 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 20004200G1210 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.