M25 crash in Brentwood on 3 July 2005 at 18:34 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord, a Ford Fiesta and a Subaru Impreza were involved in a crash on the M25 in Brentwood at 18:34 on Sunday 3 July 2005. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2005
- Sunday, 18:34
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Accord and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64644, longitude 0.20493, in the RM4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brizes, Stondon Massey & South Weald, Brentwood, RM4 1HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brentwood
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200542G048407
- Council area
- Brentwood
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 25 February 1995
At the same spotRef 19954200G0144
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 28 July 2001
14 m awayRef 20014200G0766
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 25 December 2003
14 m awayRef 20034200G1136
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Brentwood, 21 April 2019
18 m awayRef 2019420833098
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 26 May 2003
22 m awayRef 20034200G0427
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the M25 in Brentwood, 24 February 2011
22 m awayRef 201142I076202
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 3: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200542G048407 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brentwood road accident statistics for 2005.