Serious unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 7 March 2005 at 23:50 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 23:50 on Monday 7 March 2005. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Mar 2005
- Monday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and car
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7118, longitude 0.69294, in the CM9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C013203
- Council area
- Maldon
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 200542C013203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 2005.