Unclassified road crash in Harlow CM18 on 24 January 2007 at 08:26 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Harlow at 08:26 on Wednesday 24 January 2007. The 21-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series and the 29-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 08:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75196, longitude 0.08996, in the CM18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sumners & Kingsmoor, Harlow, CM18 7QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harlow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I033901
- Council area
- Harlow
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 April 2007.
Serious
Proton Persona crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 23 April 2007
20 m awayRef 200742I150504
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 24 December 1982
41 m awayRef 1982420070965
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 10 November 1989
41 m awayRef 19894200G1035
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 20 September 1996
58 m awayRef 19964200G0724
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 5 December 1980
61 m awayRef 1980420070800
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Harlow, 26 March 1993
70 m awayRef 19934200G0155
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 200742I033901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 2007.