A12 crash in Chelmsford on 1 October 2004 at 22:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A12 in Chelmsford at 22:35 on Friday 1 October 2004. The 19-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2004
- Friday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6938, longitude 0.42126, in the CM4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting, Chelmsford, CM4 0HD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200C0652
- 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
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 2004.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 9 December 2004
At the same spotRef 20044200C0859
Slight
Bedford crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 20 January 1998
At the same spotRef 19984200C0027
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 13 March 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200C0212
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 20 August 1993
At the same spotRef 19934200C0755
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 22 February 2000
At the same spotRef 20004200C0192
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A12 in Chelmsford, 22 January 1997
At the same spotRef 19974200C0037
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 20044200C0652 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.