Unclassified road crash in Colchester CO3 on 21 October 2002 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Colchester at 17:00 on Monday 21 October 2002. The 69-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2002
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90252, longitude 0.81338, in the CO3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eight Ash Green.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024200E0464
- Council area
- Colchester
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 26 September 2002
10 m awayRef 20024200E0419
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 5 August 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200E0313
Slight
Ford Streetka crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 6 January 2004
10 m awayRef 20044200E0003
Serious
Abarth 595 crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 15 August 2022
15 m awayRef 2022421209186
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 19 July 2022
15 m awayRef 2022421202384
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 14 July 1991
50 m awayRef 19914200E0574
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 20024200E0464 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 2002.