Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 7 July 2005 at 07:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Maldon at 07:40 on Thursday 7 July 2005. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2005
- Thursday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67725, longitude 0.75584, in the CM3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C040807
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 November 1997.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 4 November 1997
10 m awayRef 19974200C0734
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 15 January 1997
14 m awayRef 19974200C0034
Slight
Morris Minor crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 17 January 2000
32 m awayRef 20004200C0039
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 3 February 1996
32 m awayRef 19964200C0092
Serious
Austin crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 1 October 1996
81 m awayRef 19964200C0586
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 20 January 2009
98 m awayRef 200942I013101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200542C040807 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.