Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 23 October 2005 at 20:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Mondeo taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 20:15 on Sunday 23 October 2005. A 49-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo taxi and a 55-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2005
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73108, longitude 0.67989, in the CM9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maldon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maldon North, Maldon, CM9 5EW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C063910
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 2018.
Serious
BMW M1 crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 16 May 2018
9 m awayRef 2018420293474
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1018 in Castle Point, 25 July 1994
20 m awayRef 19944200C0604
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 31 October 2000
22 m awayRef 20004200C0737
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 18 November 1997
22 m awayRef 19974200C0803
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 9 August 2015
24 m awayRef 201542I247708
Serious
Renault crash on the B1018 in Maldon, 7 February 1996
32 m awayRef 19964200C0104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 55, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200542C063910 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.