Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest IG10 on 14 December 2000 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 00:05 on Thursday 14 December 2000. The 26-year-old male 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
- 14 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66121, longitude 0.07045, in the IG10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20004200G1238
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2005.
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 13 December 2005
51 m awayRef 200542G100012
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82 m awayRef 198601JB00549
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Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 16 August 1991
102 m awayRef 199101JB00314
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Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 8 July 2000
140 m awayRef 20004200G0563
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165 m awayRef 199401JO00408
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest, 28 March 2013
169 m awayRef 201342I084603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 20004200G1238 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.