M11 crash in Uttlesford on 4 March 2005 at 01:15 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the M11 in Uttlesford at 01:15 on Friday 4 March 2005. The 29-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2005
- Friday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05798, longitude 0.18868, in the CB10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Littlebury, Chesterford & Wenden Lofts, Uttlesford, CB10 1NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Uttlesford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542A011203
- Council area
- Uttlesford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 11
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1992.
Slight
Talbot Sunbeam crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 23 August 1992
10 m awayRef 19924200G0541
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 29 March 2003
22 m awayRef 20034200A0208
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 10 December 2005
36 m awayRef 200542A073812
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 4 April 1998
45 m awayRef 19984200A0193
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 5 June 1992
45 m awayRef 19924200G0354
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M11 in Uttlesford, 7 November 1992
50 m awayRef 19924200G0716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
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 200542A011203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Uttlesford road accident statistics for 2005.