A1060 crash in Chelmsford on 2 August 2004 at 14:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A1060 in Chelmsford at 14:45 on Monday 2 August 2004. The 24-year-old female driver of the car and a female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2004
- Monday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71978, longitude 0.5072, in the CM2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Baddow East, Chelmsford, CM2 7BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200C0509
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1060
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1114
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 6 March 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200C0168
Slight
BMW R 1150 R crash on the A1060 in Chelmsford, 23 September 2004
At the same spotRef 20044200C0630
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 5 September 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200C0575
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 20 August 1999
At the same spotRef 19994200C0554
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 16 August 2003
At the same spotRef 20034200C0481
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 2 February 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200C0087
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 20044200C0509 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2004.