Serious unclassified road crash in Tendring CO16 on 23 October 2004 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tendring at 14:30 on Saturday 23 October 2004. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Oct 2004
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79812, longitude 1.12585, in the CO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coppins, Tendring, CO15 3JY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200D0377
- Council area
- Tendring
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 29 June 1998
50 m awayRef 19984200D0242
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 21 February 1996
51 m awayRef 19964200D0085
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 28 September 2009
54 m awayRef 200942I316109
Slight
Volvo V90 crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 24 June 2025
70 m awayRef 2025421607108
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 27 August 1982
73 m awayRef 1982420040339
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 19 August 1993
108 m awayRef 19934200E0655
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 20044200D0377 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 2004.