Serious unclassified road crash in Colchester CO11 on 14 February 2003 at 22:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Colchester at 22:32 on Friday 14 February 2003. The 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 2003
- Friday, 22:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94595, longitude 1.02057, in the CO11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20034200E0067
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 June 2010.
Fatal
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 6 June 2010
41 m awayRef 201042I168506
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 3 December 2008
112 m awayRef 200842I442812
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 19 January 2012
120 m awayRef 201242I014101
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 10 November 1995
163 m awayRef 19954200D0460
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 18 June 1982
210 m awayRef 1982420040208
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 16 June 1993
231 m awayRef 19934200E0481
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 20034200E0067 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 2003.