B1025 crash in Colchester on 8 July 2004 at 16:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
Four vehicles, including a vehicle and a Ford Fiesta, were involved in a crash on the B1025 in Colchester at 16:50 on Thursday 8 July 2004. All six casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2004
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Fiesta and 3 others
- Casualties
- 6
- 6 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86666, longitude 0.90847, in the CO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berechurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berechurch, Colchester, CO2 8LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20044200E0337
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1025
- 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
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2008.
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 16 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200842I020701
Slight
Car crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 28 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200542E026406
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 24 September 2012
14 m awayRef 201242I299709
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 31 January 2020
22 m awayRef 2020420925683
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 19 January 2000
32 m awayRef 20004200E0021
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1025 in Colchester, 7 October 1994
40 m awayRef 19944200E0631
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 4: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (6)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Renault Megane)
- 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 20044200E0337 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 2004.