Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 19 December 2005 at 08:17 involving a DAF Trucks FTG 85CF lorry
A car, a DAF Trucks FTG 85CF lorry and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 08:17 on Monday 19 December 2005. The 57-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2005
- Monday, 08:17
- Vehicles
- 3
- DAF Trucks FTG 85CF and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75891, longitude 0.72864, in the CM9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C078112
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2003.
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 6 November 2009
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Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 24 November 2021
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Serious
Saab 900 crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 18 October 2009
231 m awayRef 200942I352110
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 24 September 1987
332 m awayRef 19874200C1150
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FTG 85CF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Polo
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200542C078112 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.