Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM3 on 21 December 2005 at 14:30 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 14:30 on Wednesday 21 December 2005. The 69-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6722, longitude 0.66672, in the CM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cold Norton.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542C081112
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2025.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Maldon, 22 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025421657565
Slight
Car crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 28 November 1987
22 m awayRef 19874200C1447
Serious
Car crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 13 April 1983
22 m awayRef 19834200C0370
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 16 April 1993
30 m awayRef 19934200C0331
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Maldon, 22 January 2003
40 m awayRef 20034200C0036
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1012 in Maldon, 19 November 1998
71 m awayRef 19984200C0879
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200542C081112 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.