A123 crash in Redbridge on 31 October 2003 at 20:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A123 in Redbridge at 20:45 on Friday 31 October 2003. The 28-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2003
- Friday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61483, longitude 0.07903, in the IG7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chigwell.
Map of where the crash happened in Redbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301JI00841
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 123
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 December 2025.
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 10 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025421681258
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 1 July 2011
10 m awayRef 201142I202007
Slight
Car crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 9 December 1987
14 m awayRef 198701JB00878
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 29 October 2019
17 m awayRef 2019420892707
Slight
Car crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 29 December 1984
22 m awayRef 198401JB00832
Serious
Car crash on the A123 in Epping Forest, 31 July 1988
36 m awayRef 198801JB00565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200301JI00841 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 2003.